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Word entry · 3 letters

aba

Best crossword clue

"Woven cloak"

3 letters · collected on this word page

3 lettersPronunciation /əˈbɑː/Part of speech nounSorted aabStarts with AEnds with A1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a fabric woven from goat hair and camel hair

Word origin

Borrowed from Arabic عَبَاءَة (ʕabāʔa). Compare abaya.

Used in a sentence

  • 'A pale mauve abba such as you buy in the East.'
  • Here Nessim would sit night after night in the winter, dressed in his old rust-coloured abba, staring gravely at Betelgeuse, or hovering over books of calculations for all the world like a medieval soothsayer.
  • Holonym: hijab

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