haik

American  

[hahyk, heyk] / haɪk, heɪk /

Or haick

noun

1. an oblong cloth used as an outer garment by the Arabs.

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haik British  

/ heɪk, haɪk /

noun

1. an Arab's outer garment of cotton, wool, or silk, for the head and body

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Etymology

Origin of haik

1605–15; < Arabic hā'ik, hayk, akin to ḥāk weave

Example Sentences

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

Their bodies were enveloped in a coarse haik, a species of serge of their own manufacture.

From Travels through the Empire of Morocco by Buffa, John

Ali said nothing, but drew up his haik over his mouth and nose, and looked into the night, folding his thin hands in his burnous.

From The Garden of Allah by Hichens, Robert Smythe

The stranger said clearly, "And drop the veil, discard the haik for the new clothing, and attend the schools?"

From Black Man's Burden by Reynolds, Mack

They were wearing blue turbans above the flowing white "haik" which fell back upon their shoulders, and the white burnous which reached to their ankles.

From The Soul of the War by Gibbs, Philip