galabiyan.

1725 J. Windus Journey to Mequinez 29 A Gelebia..is made of a course and thick wrought woollen Stuff, without Sleeves, but Holes to put their Arms thro', it reaches to their Knees, and hangs loose about their Bodies like a Sack.

1820 J. G. Jackson Acct. Timbuctoo & Housa 200 Their costume is a jelabea, and a belt, without shoes or head dress.

1839 J. Davidson Notes Trav. Afr. 12 The jelábíyah are merely coarse sacks, with holes in them for the arms to pass through.

1892 D. A. Cameron Arabic-Eng. Vocab. 45 ‘Galábiya’.

1900 A. Conan Doyle Green Flag 328 Tell them to undo the man's galabeeah.

1904 A. E. W. Mason Truants xxv. 233 A black jellaba and cap, such as the Jews must wear in Morocco.

1916 V. Horsley in S. Paget Sir V. Horsley (1919) 321 The small boys..are given the head-dress and a few feet of stuff for a galabea.

1921 Chambers's Jrnl. 26 Mar. 265/1 A figure in a blue galabieh and a white-turbaned tarboosh.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xviii. [Penelope] 708 Longbearded jews in their jellibees.

1964 Punch 19 Feb. 278/3 ‘He had always a bottle of whisky under his jellaba,’ Si Mohammed went on.

1965 Economist 2 Jan. 25/1 The [Egyptian] working man in the towns..rustles a few more notes in his trouser (no longer, let us note in passing, his galabiya) pocket.

1969 Daily Tel. 24 Jan. (Colour Suppl.) 17/2 A girl called Susy in a jellabah like John Hanson in Desert Song.