yukata

[ yoo-kah-tah ]

noun

, plural yu·ka·ta.

1. a Japanese dressing gown or lounging robe of soft, lightweight cotton.

Word History and Origins

Origin of yukata¹

1815–25; < Japanese: literally, a bathrobe, shortened form of yu-katabira, equivalent to yu hot water + kata side + -bira, combining form of hira (earlier fira, *pira ) flat thing

Example Sentences

One summer we went to a store selling cloth for a bathing cloth (yukata) which I wear in summer-time.

From Project Gutenberg

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