variants
or less commonly keffiyeh
: an Arab headdress consisting of a square of cloth folded to form a triangle and held on by a cord
Examples of kaffiyeh in a Sentence
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Many wore kaffiyeh scarves, a symbol of Palestinian solidarity, and shouted for Paxson and school administrators to divest the university's endowment from companies affiliated with Israel.
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Kaetlyn Liddy, NBC News, 29 Nov. 2023
Sitting on a boulder and wearing a purple robe and a red and white kaffiyeh as a hijab, the cousin looked over at a nook, the smallest of the three areas of the cave.
—Raja Abdulrahim, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2022
Our driver wore a traditional dishdasha, a long white robe, with a red-and-white scarf, the traditional kaffiyeh, atop his head.
—Amanda Orr, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2019
So migration is a natural theme, pondered by such works as Khaled Barakeh’s combination of a life jacket and a kaffiyeh (a traditional scarf) and Said Baalbaki’s painting of a stack of suitcases.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2019
The blind former rebel chieftain, wearing his trademark kaffiyeh scarf, took the oath in a no-frills ceremony in a small office in the congress building.
—Kejal Vyas, WSJ, 11 June 2019
Kaetlyn Liddy, NBC News, 29 Nov. 2023
Sitting on a boulder and wearing a purple robe and a red and white kaffiyeh as a hijab, the cousin looked over at a nook, the smallest of the three areas of the cave.
—Raja Abdulrahim, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2022
Our driver wore a traditional dishdasha, a long white robe, with a red-and-white scarf, the traditional kaffiyeh, atop his head.
—Amanda Orr, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2019
So migration is a natural theme, pondered by such works as Khaled Barakeh’s combination of a life jacket and a kaffiyeh (a traditional scarf) and Said Baalbaki’s painting of a stack of suitcases.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2019
The blind former rebel chieftain, wearing his trademark kaffiyeh scarf, took the oath in a no-frills ceremony in a small office in the congress building.
—Kejal Vyas, WSJ, 11 June 2019
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Word History
Etymology
Arabic kūfīya, kaffīya, from al-Kufa Al-Kufa, town in Iraq
First Known Use
circa 1817, in the meaning defined above
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“Kaffiyeh.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kaffiyeh. Accessed 11 Dec. 2023.
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