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muumuu

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muu⋅muu

[moo-moo]
–noun
1. a long, loose-hanging dress, usually brightly colored or patterned, worn esp. by Hawaiian women.
2. a similar dress worn as a housedress.

Origin:
1920–25; < Hawaiian muʾumuʾu name of the dress, lit., cut-off; so called because it originally lacked a yoke
muu·muu   (mōō'mōō')   
n.  A long loose dress that hangs free from the shoulders.

[Hawaiian mu'umu'u, cut off, muumuu, from reduplication of muku, to cut off.]
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