muumuu
Americannoun
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a long, loose-hanging dress, usually brightly colored or patterned, worn especially by Hawaiian women.
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a similar dress worn as a housedress.
Etymology
Origin of muumuu
First recorded in 1920–25; from Hawaiian muʾumuʾu name of the dress, literally, “cut-off”; so called because it originally lacked a yoke
Vocabulary lists containing muumuu
Example Sentences
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Sure, the county supervisor’s sequined, rainbow muumuu was giving her an angry rash.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2025
“Like, the urine smell, the woman in the muumuu, the stray cats.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 19, 2021
Over there, crashing the Dubai Mall in a burgundy muumuu and harem slippers.
From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2018
As fun as it would be to see Maura Pfefferman glow with starlight before transforming into, say, Bob Newhart in a muumuu, such a move would play havoc with the show’s sense of spiritless depression.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 8, 2017
Every Sunday morning, my once-Hindu grandmother swishes out of the apartment in a floral muumuu that skims across the tops of her tennis shoes.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
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