dashikis
- plural of dashiki.
Example Sentences
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Classrooms feature maps of Africa and brown paper figures wearing dashikis, a garment worn mostly in West Africa.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 26, 2023
A person could spend hours sifting through the racks of dashikis, beaded necklaces, Ghanaian baskets and Mali mudcloth.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 11, 2022
“Not only were they wearing dashikis, they had painted polka dots on their faces, and Nessa’s hair was blue at the time,” he said.
From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2021
He only eats and shops at black-owned spots, he wears beaded necklaces and dashikis on the regular, and all of his T-shirts boast slogans like “Educated Black Man” and “Stay Woke!”
From Salon • Jun. 19, 2017
Everyone wears dashikis, kabas and slits, shirts sewn with kente cloth, and other traditional Ghanaian garb that I’d never be caught in at school.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
