leson.
/ˈlɛsəʊ/, U.S. /ˈlɛsoʊ/, East African English /ˈleso/ East African.
A type of cotton fabric printed with designs in bright colours, typically in squares or rectangles featuring a border on all four sides, and used especially for women's clothing; a piece of this fabric, often worn as a shawl or wrap; = kanga n.2
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1961 F. D. Hislop Story of Kenya x. 39 The Company's traders took into the interior white and blue beads,..small mirrors, coloured shawls (kanga and leso).
2010 Monitor (Kampala) (Nexis) 24 June The women arrived individually and gathered at Centenary Park... Each one had a bag carrying..T-Shirts..and a traditional cloth called leso.
2019 Daily Nation (Kenya) (Nexis) 9 Mar. As we spoke I saw a figure in a leso bearing towards us. The leso flattered [sic] in the breeze.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2022).
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n.1961- two pair room
- two parts
- two peas in a pod
- two pennyworth
- two seater
- two shakes of a lamb's tail
- two shear
- two sides of a shield
- two sides of the same coin
- two strikes and you're out
- two striper
- two the first
- two three days' journey
- two three seater
- two three-striper
- two threestriper
- two time
- two times
- two two-striper
- two twostriper
- two wrongs don't make a right
- two year and two year
- two's company
- two's company, three's a crowd
- two's company, three's none