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mufti

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"Civilian clothes"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ˈmʌfti/Part of speech nounSorted fimtuStarts with MEnds with I1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. civilian dress worn by a person who is entitled to wear a military uniform

Word origin

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish مفتی (müfti), from Arabic مُفْتِي (muftī, “fatwa-deliverer”, literally “deliverer of formal opinion”).

Used in a sentence

  • He had a suit of summer mufti, and a broad-brimmed blue beaver hat looped with leaves broken from the hedgerows in the lanes, and a Leander scarf tucked full of flowers: loosestrife, meadowrue, orchis, ragged-robin.
  • The innate reluctance of the Englishman to make himself conspicuous has stood him here in good stead. Except on special occasions, the British officers are almost always in mufti.
  • The sailors in mufti returned with 140 quarts of Bar's Leak, half of which was poured into the condenser.

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