holokun.
/həʊˈləʊkuː/ A long gown with a train as worn in Hawaii.
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1893 R. L. Stevenson Island Nights' Entertainm. 207 Kokua concealed the bottle under her holoku.
1893 R. L. Stevenson Island Nights' Entertainm. 177 She..stood by the track-side in her red holoku.
1923 C. Cameron Two Years in Southern Seas i. 20 Her gown was a ‘holokus’, the native robe of a long ‘princess’ style, loose and flowing with train of bright yellow.
1954 J. Sheridan in J. D. MacDonald Lethal Sex (1962) 155 A stately Hawaiian woman in a flowered holoku.
1960 Guardian 3 Nov. 10/4 Long-skirted dresses, called muumuus and holokus, that were adaptations of respectable female attire in Massachusetts.
1967 M. Davis Strange Corner (1968) xv. 111 He..dropped his eyes to the skin-tight white holoku and whistled.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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