Kopdoek

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A headcloth. South-Africa

    "The older women wear their dresses conservatively long and still cling to the brightly- coloured "kopdoek" (headcloth). Their daughters favour shorter skirts and their sons bell-bottoms, and the kopdoek seems to be fighting a losing battle."

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doek

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"The older women wear their dresses conservatively long and still cling to the brightly- coloured "kopdoek" (headcloth). Their daughters favour shorter skirts and their sons bell-bottoms, and the kopdoek seems to be fighting a losing battle."

Etymology

From Afrikaans kopdoek, from kop (“head”) + doek (“cloth”).

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