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
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 haik or barracan is exported in great numbers to the Levant by the pilgrims.
From Travels in Morocco, Volume 1. by Richardson, James
It was in fact the haik or bag-cloak of the East, and it made a wonderfully effective Arab costume.
From The Gypsies by Leland, Charles Godfrey
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 Marshall, Edison
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