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kopdoek

kopdoek noun: a headcloth.

Noun

kopdoek (plural kopdoeke or kopdoeks)

  1. (South Africa) A headcloth.
    • The older women wear their dresses conservatively long and still cling to the brightly- coloured "kopdoek" (headcloth). Their daughters favour shorter skirts and their sons bell-bottoms, and the kopdoek seems to be fighting a losing battle.Willem Steenkamp (1975), Land of the Thirst King, H. Timmins, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    doek

Synonyms of kopdoek

Forms of kopdoek

pluralkopdoeke
pluralkopdoeks

Origin of kopdoek

From Afrikaans kopdoek, from kop (“head”) + doek (“cloth”).

Questions about kopdoek

What does kopdoek mean?
Kopdoek means a headcloth.
What part of speech is kopdoek?
Kopdoek is a noun.
What is the plural of kopdoek?
The plural of kopdoek is kopdoeke.

Words near kopdoek in the dictionary

  1. kopanisti
  2. kopapa
  3. kopasetic
  4. Kopczynski
  5. Kopczynskis
  6. kopdoek
  7. kopdoeke
  8. kopdoeks
  9. Kopec
  10. kopeck
  11. kopecks

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