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dashiki
noun
da·shi·ki
də-ˈshē-kē 
dä-,
da-
: a usually brightly colored loose-fitting pullover garment
Examples of dashiki in a Sentence
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So, there are [memes] of me as Doctor Manhattan with a chain and a dashiki and a kufi and, like, red laser eyes.
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Lacey Rose, HollywoodReporter, 20 May 2026
The barbers all wore dashikis or T-shirts that celebrated the motherland.
—D. Watkins, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2025
The trappings of Pan-African culture — the dashikis and kufis that once felt ubiquitous at home — were objects of skepticism.
—Ismail Muhammad, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
Many of the young girls wear long dresses with their heads covered and the boys wear colorful dashikis.
—Tony Paige, New York Daily News, 2 June 2024
Moor, donning a yellow dashiki with a long gold rope chain, strolls around the classroom discussing how Black consciousness has evolved since the end of slavery.
—C. Isaiah Smalls Ii, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2024
Queen Latifah wore African outfits befitting her regal name, like headdresses, Africa medallions, and dashikis.
—Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2023
Earlier this year, Pearson wore a dashiki for his swearing-in ceremony.
—Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
Classrooms feature maps of Africa and brown paper figures wearing dashikis, a garment worn mostly in West Africa.
—Cheyanne Mumphrey, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Apr. 2023
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Lacey Rose, HollywoodReporter, 20 May 2026
The barbers all wore dashikis or T-shirts that celebrated the motherland.
—D. Watkins, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2025
The trappings of Pan-African culture — the dashikis and kufis that once felt ubiquitous at home — were objects of skepticism.
—Ismail Muhammad, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
Many of the young girls wear long dresses with their heads covered and the boys wear colorful dashikis.
—Tony Paige, New York Daily News, 2 June 2024
Moor, donning a yellow dashiki with a long gold rope chain, strolls around the classroom discussing how Black consciousness has evolved since the end of slavery.
—C. Isaiah Smalls Ii, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2024
Queen Latifah wore African outfits befitting her regal name, like headdresses, Africa medallions, and dashikis.
—Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2023
Earlier this year, Pearson wore a dashiki for his swearing-in ceremony.
—Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
Classrooms feature maps of Africa and brown paper figures wearing dashikis, a garment worn mostly in West Africa.
—Cheyanne Mumphrey, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Apr. 2023
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“Dashiki.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dashiki. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.
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dashiki
noun
da·shi·ki
də-ˈshē-kē
: a usually brightly colored one-piece pullover garment
Etymology
derived from danshiki, an Indigenous word for this garment in a language of western Africa
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