haik
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of haik
1605–15; < Arabic hā'ik, hayk, akin to ḥāk weave
Example Sentences
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One night last week, when Djamila, other relatives, and neighbors trooped homeward, the group also included an extra, heavily cloaked figure in a Moslem woman's head-to-foot white haik.
From Time Magazine Archive
She must drop the veil," the man continued clearly, "and give up the haik and wear the new clothes.
From Black Man's Burden by Mack Reynolds
The haik or barracan is exported in great numbers to the Levant by the pilgrims.
From Travels in Morocco, Volume 1. by James Richardson
She put back the hooded fold of her haik, showing him her face, her scarlet mouth, her wide eyes, long at the outer corners, her hair aflame with henna.
From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 by Edison Marshall
A plain white haik was wrapped about her; and she had drawn one corner of it over her head.
From Atlantida by Pierre Benôit
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