tobes

Noun

tobe (plural tobes)

1. A cotton garment worn in parts of northern Africa.
   • It consists, for men and women alike, of a ‘tobe,’ or straight piece of cotton cloth (printed, or white with a crimson border), two breadths wide, and some twelve feet long, draped in graceful folds about the body, and fastened on the left shoulder.1889, Edinburgh Review, page 391

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