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Definition of "kaffiyeh" []

  • A cloth headdress fastened by a band around the crown and usually worn by Arab men. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "kaffiyeh" in a sentence
  • "The logic, born in college dining halls and now embraced by people well into adulthood, that holds that donning a colored plastic bracelet or a kaffiyeh is an act of personal and political self-definition can and does attach the same significance to snowboarding and to selecting one’s iPod playlist."
  • "As the merchant and I bargained about whether the kaffiyeh should be a dollar or two, I asked the older gentleman selling me the scarves why he would want to sell them at inflated prices to me."
  • "The hatemongering Malkin thinks that scarf looks like a kaffiyeh, which is worn in the Middle East."