caftan

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Caftans became so ubiquitous this summer that the fashion industry had to confront a sobering question: “Can You Wear a Caftan to the Office?” the Vogue headline read.

From New York Times • Sep. 18, 2018

Trishka's Caftan Trishka's caftan was out at the elbows.

From The Talking Beasts by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith

The Boiarskey or Gentlemans attire is of the same fashion, but differeth in stuffe: and yet he will haue his Caftan or vndercoat sometimes of cloth of golde, the rest of cloth, or silke.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04 by Hakluyt, Richard

To the practised eye, a Hijazi in Tarbush and Caftan is ridiculous as a Basque or a Catalonian girl in a cachemire and a little chip.

From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Caftan, kaf′tan, n. a Persian or Turkish vest.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various