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dashiki
noun
da·shi·ki
də-ˈshē-kē 
dä-,
da-
: a usually brightly colored loose-fitting pullover garment
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Queen Latifah wore African outfits befitting her regal name, like headdresses, Africa medallions, and dashikis.
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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
Known since college for almost always wearing a suit, Pearson wore a traditional West African dashiki on the House floor on his first day in office.
—Vivian Jones, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2023
In it, Mona Chang (16, quiet, funny, boy-crazy, struggling with her parents’ vision of assimilation and her own) enthusiastically converts to Judaism, and dates a sort-of-Jewish hippie boy who wears a dashiki and enjoys the free life in a tepee in his rich parents’ backyard.
—Kate Cray, The Atlantic, 2 Apr. 2021
On a sunny morning in Rialto, Simmons, wearing a dashiki revealing forearm tattoos of a mermaid and a panther, was perplexed that the abuse at Cardinal Health had come from Latino colleagues.
—Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2022
The evening wrapped up with L.A.’s dashiki-loving sax wizard Kamasi Washington backed by his explosive seven-piece ensemble.
—Nate Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2021
On Friday's episode of the CBS reality series, Trina, 25, presented Cashay, 25, with a special, sentimental dashiki.
—Abigail Adams, PEOPLE.com, 9 Aug. 2021
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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
Known since college for almost always wearing a suit, Pearson wore a traditional West African dashiki on the House floor on his first day in office.
—Vivian Jones, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2023
In it, Mona Chang (16, quiet, funny, boy-crazy, struggling with her parents’ vision of assimilation and her own) enthusiastically converts to Judaism, and dates a sort-of-Jewish hippie boy who wears a dashiki and enjoys the free life in a tepee in his rich parents’ backyard.
—Kate Cray, The Atlantic, 2 Apr. 2021
On a sunny morning in Rialto, Simmons, wearing a dashiki revealing forearm tattoos of a mermaid and a panther, was perplexed that the abuse at Cardinal Health had come from Latino colleagues.
—Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2022
The evening wrapped up with L.A.’s dashiki-loving sax wizard Kamasi Washington backed by his explosive seven-piece ensemble.
—Nate Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2021
On Friday's episode of the CBS reality series, Trina, 25, presented Cashay, 25, with a special, sentimental dashiki.
—Abigail Adams, PEOPLE.com, 9 Aug. 2021
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Word History
Etymology
modification of Yoruba dàńṣíkí
First Known Use
circa 1968, in the meaning defined above
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“Dashiki.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dashiki. Accessed 29 Nov. 2023.
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dashiki
noun
da·shi·ki
də-ˈshē-kē
: a usually brightly colored one-piece pullover garment
Etymology
derived from danshiki, a native word for this garment in a language of western Africa
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