How to Use muumuu in a Sentence

muumuu

noun
  • But a muumuu is much more multi-purpose than a nightgown could ever be.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 18 Sep. 2026
  • And some more casual takes on the muumuu look like something your Auntie wouldn’t wear out of the house.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 18 Sep. 2026
  • The Origins of Muumuus The proper spelling is muumuu or mu’umu’u.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Here are the differences between a nightgown and a muumuu—or more accurately, muumuu.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Wearing a flowing purple muumuu, Monaleo gets to throwing down a soul food dinner for the whole family.
    — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Jean’s mama, in a kente-print muumuu (as much out of self-consciousness about middle-aged weight gain, Jean figured, as in celebration of the day), hovered nearby, smiling on.
    — David Wright Faladé, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
  • By the grace of God for your mother and her Church, Trust the process for theirs; a sari or a muumuu or a bubu in her temple, Lululemon or Lilly Pulitzer in theirs.
    — Taiye Selasi, New Yorker, 31 May 2026

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