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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We can’t wait for the comeback of the muumuu next.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 26, 2020
His props included pantaloons for a kangaroo, a burlap sack for a deer, Bermuda shorts for a horse and a muumuu for a cow.
From Washington Post • Sep. 18, 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
Carman, who is sixty-two, wore a blue muumuu and had pinned an orchid in her hair.
From The New Yorker • May 29, 2017
The red lipstick and purple eye shadow that matches her muumuu somehow make her look regal, dazzling, eye-catching.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
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