Lexicographical Neighbors of Kufiyah
Literary usage of Kufiyah
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah by Richard Francis Burton, Isabel Burton, Stanley Lane-Poole (1906)
"... Sharifs,—a kufiyah (kerchief) on the head,8 and a Banish, a long and wide-sleeved
garment resembling our magicians' gown, thrown over the white cotton ..."
2. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1859)
"Arab. kufiyah, a head kerchief. Coil. To coil a cable, to wind it round in the
form of a ring, each fold of rope being called a coil. Port. colher hum cabo, ..."
3. Six Months in Meccah: An Account of the Mohammedan Pilgrimage to Meccah by John Fryer Keane (1881)
"He has a small round bullet head, and that peculiar cast of countenance which
provokes * Aba. t kufiyah. ..."
4. Six Months in the Hejaz: An Account of the Mohammedan Pilgrimages to Meccah by John Fryer Keane (1887)
"... was mounted in an English saddle, doing the Great Pilgrimage in the pig's
skin, happy and unconscious ! The soul of that * Aba. f kufiyah. ..."
5. The Lake Regions of Central Africa: A Picture of Exploration by Richard Francis Burton (1860)
"For the cold mornings and the noonday heats I made up a large padded hood, bound
round the head like the Arab kufiyah. Too much can not be said in favor of ..."
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