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
"I didna, but I wish you would take your arm off the haik."
From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
One more delay—outside the Jewish cemetery was standing, waiting for us, the wife of Saïd: many tears were flowing, and sobs to be heard under the haik.
From In the Tail of the Peacock by Isabel Savory
She sat silent, her haik wrapped completely about her dark little figure.
From Atlantida by Pierre Benôit
A venerable Jew, with long white beard, walked side by side with a Moor of great stature, enshrouded in the folds of his snow-white haik.
From The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable by Sir Hall Caine
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