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View synonyms for muumuu
muumuu
or mu·mu, mu'u·mu'u
[ moo-moo ]
noun
- a long, loose-hanging dress, usually brightly colored or patterned, worn especially by Hawaiian women.
- a similar dress worn as a housedress.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of muumuu1
First recorded in 1920–25; from Hawaiian muʾumuʾu name of the dress, literally, “cut-off”; so called because it originally lacked a yoke
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Example Sentences
Marlon Brando yelled at the audience about dead children from a divan clad in a purple muumuu.
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