muumuu
or mu·mu, mu'u·mu'u
[ moo-moo ]
noun
a long, loose-hanging dress, usually brightly colored or patterned, worn especially by Hawaiian women.
a similar dress worn as a housedress.
Origin of muumuu
1First recorded in 1920–25; from Hawaiian muʾumuʾu name of the dress, literally, “cut-off”; so called because it originally lacked a yoke
Words Nearby muumuu
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How to use muumuu in a sentence
Marlon Brando yelled at the audience about dead children from a divan clad in a purple muumuu.
British Dictionary definitions for muu-muu
muu-muu
/ (ˈmuːˌmuː) /
noun
a loose brightly-coloured dress worn by women in Hawaii
Origin of muu-muu
1from Hawaiian
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