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单词 keffiyeh
释义

Definition of keffiyeh in English:

keffiyeh

(also kaffiyeh)
noun kəˈfiː(j)ə
  • A headdress worn by Arab men, consisting of a square of fabric fastened by a band round the crown of the head.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Most of the resistance fighters were peasants who traditionally wore kaffiyehs and lived in the mountains or small villages.
    • A photographer wearing a kaffiyeh came and photographed them.
    • Old Arab men wearing keffiyehs swayed on their canes as they talked to their Jewish friends inside the kibbutz grounds.
    • The bag pictures Arafat in his trademark kaffiyeh and uniform.
    • His trademark Palestinian headdress, the keffiyeh, which he adopted in 1956 as a radical student, made him immediately identifiable and became part of the myths he wove about his life.
    • One boy had his keffiyeh confiscated and I saw at least two boys arrested and handcuffed.
    • After all, people's anxiety about the kaffiyeh derives from politics, not from its aesthetic merits.
    • The black and white kaffiyeh is often associated with Fatah; the red and white with Hamas.
    • The black cord that holds the kaffiyeh on one's head is called an ekal.
    • I see an old man in a red kaffiyeh lying against the back wall.
    • He was all dressed up, wearing a suit and a kaffiyeh, he looked really respectable.
    • The 51-year-old wore a white kaffiyeh and a white robe with square-rimmed glasses and a salt-and-pepper beard.
    • Other journalists favor small sedans and camouflage themselves with kaffiyehs as they drive the streets.
    • But they don't wear keffiyehs, and don't traditionally view fresh water as wealth.
    • Nor does it matter whether he wears an army uniform, a three-piece suit or a kaffiyeh.
    • The boys gathered around me, and the labourers removed their keffiyehs from their faces to talk.
    • The keffiyeh is best known in the West as the head covering of choice of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
    • The agal is a length of cord which is used to bind the kaffiyeh to the head, usually several loops secure it.
    • At the head of the tomb is a photograph of Arafat with a kaffiyeh draped over it.
    • In Jordan, Queen Rania wore a kaffiyeh and headed an official march.

Origin

Early 19th century: from Arabic keffiyya, kūfiyya.

 
 
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