aba

Definition

A coarse, often striped, felted fabric from the Middle East, woven from goat or camel hair.

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عَبَاءَة (ʕabāʔa). Compare abaya.

Example Sentences

• "'A pale mauve abba such as you buy in the East.'"
• "Here Nessim would sit night after night in the winter, dressed in his old rust-coloured abba, staring gravely at Betelgeuse, or hovering over books of calculations for all the world like a medieval soothsayer."
• "Holonym: hijab"