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Laboyan

Laboyan adjective: from, or pertaining to, Laboya.

Adjective

Laboyan (not comparable)

  1. From, or pertaining to, Laboya.
    • As it is the most splendid creation within the Laboyan textile tradition, the value of this type of large men's wrap was perhaps always twofold.1993, Marie-Louise Nabholz-Kartaschoff, Ruth Barnes, David J. Stuart-Fox, editors, Weaving Patterns of Life: Indonesian Textile Symposium 1991, Switzerland: Museum of Ethnography, Basel, →ISBN, page...
    • Moreover, ambiguity may be tactically advantageous, as suggested by Edgar Keller's (1992: 258) account of a rich, self-made Laboyan who favored an idiosyncratic style of tying his headcloth, with the ends handing down.1997, Webb Keane, “Chapter 3: Things of Value”, in Signs of Recognition: Powers and Hazards of Representation in an Indonesian Society, London: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 79

Origin of Laboyan

From Laboya + -n.

Questions about Laboyan

What does Laboyan mean?
Laboyan means from, or pertaining to, Laboya.
What part of speech is Laboyan?
Laboyan is an adjective.

Words near Laboyan in the dictionary

  1. laboursomely
  2. Labov
  3. Labovian
  4. Laboy
  5. Laboya
  6. Laboyan
  7. Laboys
  8. labra
  9. Labrada
  10. Labradane
  11. Labradanes

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