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n. - A voluminous cotton outer garment (usually white) traditionally worn by Muslim women of northern Africa and the Middle East.

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Usage examples (10)
  • It helps to think of it in two parts: real (real, just like in English) + izar (to make).
  • She is neither tall nor short; but her hips are such that the izar is too narrow for them.
  • So he wears a rida '(upper garment) and izar (lower garment) or whatever, and sandals or any footwear that does not cover the ankle-bone.
  • Accordingly, on the fourth day, I procured what was requisite, as usual, and soon after sunset she came, accompanied by a female wrapped in an izar, and they entered,...
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