haik

American  

[hahyk, hayk] / haɪk, heɪk /

Or haick

noun

1. an oblong cloth used as an outer garment by the Arabs.

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haik British  

/ heɪk, haɪk /

noun

1. an Arab's outer garment of cotton, wool, or silk, for the head and body

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Etymology

Origin of haik

1605–15; < Arabic hā'ik, hayk, akin to ḥāk weave

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Example Sentences

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haik

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

Then she's offered a good position if she'll drop the veil, discard the haik, and attend the new schools.

From Black Man's Burden by Mack Reynolds

It was a tall man with haik over his turban, and blue selam on top of a yellow kaftan.

From The Blind Mother and The Last Confession by Sir Hall Caine

Their bodies were enveloped in a coarse haik, a species of serge of their own manufacture.

From Travels through the Empire of Morocco by John Buffa

But she knew her place, was dutifully shy and quiet spoken, and in the town or in the presence of men, wore her haik and veil.

From Black Man's Burden by Mack Reynolds

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