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Definition of Jubbah
1. n. A long outer garment worn by both sexes of Mohammedans of the better class.
Definition of Jubbah
1. a loose outer garment [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jubbah
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Literary usage of Jubbah
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Travels in the Three Great Empires of Austria, Russia, and Turkey by Charles Boileau Elliott (1838)
"jubbah. — Curiosity of villagers. — Accommodations.—Ruins of Sebaste, the ancient
Samaria.— Terraces. — Columns. — Origin of name. — Colonnade. ..."
2. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah by Richard Francis Burton, Isabel Burton, Stanley Lane-Poole (1906)
"Respectable men wear either a Benish or a jubbah ; the 'ter, as at Meccah, is
generally of some light and flashy our, gamboge, yellow, tender green, ..."
3. Palestine Under the Moslems: A Description of Syria and the Holy Land from A by Guy Le Strange (1890)
"... to him if he did not drink of this pit There is at this pit a fine marble tank."
(Yak., ii. 18; Mar., i. 237.) AL jubbah.—" A village belonging to ..."
4. Liberia by Harry Hamilton Johnston, Otto Stapf (1906)
"... bubu, taub, or tobe of the Western Sudan, an amplification no doubt of the
Moorish and Egyptian jubbah or ..."
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