caftan
or kaf·tan
a long garment having long sleeves and tied at the waist by a girdle, worn under a coat in the Middle East.
a long, full, usually collarless robe with wide sleeves that is worn at home for lounging or entertaining or at the beach as a cover-up.
Origin of caftan
1Other words from caftan
- caftaned, adjective
Words Nearby caftan
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How to use caftan in a sentence
For example, we recently launched a vintage caftan collection, which was enormously popular.
The CEO striving to make vintage, secondhand clothing as popular as fast fashion | Rachel King | September 6, 2020 | FortuneMadonna can keep her patterned caftan, and the models can enjoy their facemasks.
Chicken Bitches, now in a neon yellow bow wig and floral caftan, announces the final round: talent.
And the Wiener Is…My Trip to Brooklyn’s Smallest Penis Pageant | Tessa Miller | June 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThose Turks, male and female, who are descended from Mahomet, have either a green caftan or a green turban.
A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy | Ida PfeifferAzraele now took her gay Persian shawl from her waist and made ready to lay aside her caftan.
The Golden Age in Transylvania | Mr Jkai
In the middle came the Prince himself in long, princely caftan with ermine bordered cap,—the sceptre in his hand.
The Golden Age in Transylvania | Mr JkaiAnd now he swears he will grant me no more time; that he will have the caftan off my back if I do not raise the thousand rubles.
The Green Book | Mr JkaiFrau Elsbeth trembled with fear as soon as the Jew, in his dirty caftan, appeared at the gate.
Dame Care | Hermann Sudermann
British Dictionary definitions for caftan
/ (ˈkæfˌtæn, -ˌtɑːn) /
a variant spelling of kaftan
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