happi
/ˈhapi
/(also happi coat)
noun (plural happis)
A loose informal Japanese coat.His black happi is wrapped around his bulky frame like a dressing gown....
- U.S. Ambassador Thomas Foley leaped up onto a stage, wearing a light blue happi coat, and read out to Saeki-san, in front of the throng, a letter of congratulations from the White House.
- In the welcoming ceremony, Japanese boys wore happi coats, Japan's traditional workman's short coat, and beat ‘wadaiko’ drums while girls clad in kimono performed dances and played 13-stringed horizontal ‘koto’ harps.
Origin
Late 19th century: Japanese.
Rhymes
- subsistential
- subsisting diet
- subsist money
- colored hearing
- colored pencil
- color emphasis
- colore officii
- color expanse
- color film
- color force
- colorful
- color gravure
- color guard
- color harmony
- color hearer
- color hearing
- colorific
- colorimeter
- colorimetric
- colorimetrical
- colorimetrically
- colorimetrist
- colorimetry
- color index
- colorine