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1908 H. B. Schwartz In Togo's Country 170 The woman..wore over her ordinary dress a pair of trousers called mompe, fitting closely around the ankle and baggy round the hips.

1947 J. Morris Phoenix Cup ii. 24 Most of the women wear mompei, rather ugly baggy trousers normally worn only when working in the fields.

1952 E. G. Vining Windows for Crown Prince xxix. 232 Picturesque figures in the big straw hats and cotton mompes of the old prints bent over weeding the rice fields.

1960 B. Leach Potter in Japan v. 109 To keep moderately clean, I wear a pair of Hamada's ‘mompei’ (baggy overall trousers) and rubber boots.

1972 National Geographic May 672/2 Groups of women in mompe, the traditional baggy work trousers worn in rural areas, shifted the seaweed by hand.

1985 A. Booth Roads to Sata 67 A grandmother in mompe—traditional loose-fitting ‘mountain trousers’—was out on the country road playing baseball with some young children.

1993 L. Dalby Kimono (2001) 131 By 1943..baggy trousers called mompe became women's daily dress. Worn over a shirt or an old kimono, mompe was the civilian uniform of a generation of women.

2001 S. Lonsdale Japanese Style 27 Issey Miyake's early works..drew their inspiration from the world of traditional Japanese folkwear: mompe,..tunics..with an obi-like tie and clothing made from a single piece of material.