haik
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of haik
1605–15; < Arabic hā'ik, hayk, akin to ḥāk weave
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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
One more delay—outside the Jewish cemetery was standing, waiting for us, the wife of Saïd: many tears were flowing, and sobs to be heard under the haik.
From In the Tail of the Peacock by Isabel Savory
When she heard the first handfuls of sand fall on the haik, she gave a sharp cry.
From Atlantida by Pierre Benôit
They haik ye up and settle ye by, Till on your wedding day, And gie ye frogs instead o’ fish, And play ye foul, foul play.
From Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series by Frank Sidgwick
A venerable Jew, with long white beard, walked side by side with a Moor of great stature, enshrouded in the folds of his snow-white haik.
From The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable by Sir Hall Caine
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