jilbab
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of jilbab
from Arabic
Example Sentences
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She sat on a broken block from the debris of her destroyed house with her red gown, or jilbab, draped over her head down to the ground.
From BBC • Sep. 10, 2025
Warsame wrote a letter and spoke to the manager on behalf of the woman, who was able to keep her job and continue to wear her jilbab at work.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 20, 2018
Maysa had initially adopted the jilbab to “hide some weight I’d put on”, she says.
From The Guardian • Nov. 26, 2015
She was immediately stripped of her western identity and cloaked in a jilbab, a form of traditional Arabic attire for women.
From Newsweek • Sep. 5, 2013
They entered silently, wearing the ubiquitous hijab head scarf and ankle-length button-down overcoat known as the jilbab.
From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2010
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