: a usually brightly colored loose-fitting pullover garment
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Recent Examples on the WebQueen 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 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 See More
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