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has gloss	(noun) a loose and brightly colored African shirt daishiki, dashiki
has gloss	eng: A Dashiki is a loose, brightly coloured African garment that covers the top half of the body. It is worn mostly by men in West Africa.
has gloss	eng: The dashiki is a colorful men's garment widely worn in West Africa that covers the top half of the body. It has formal and informal versions and varies from simple draped clothing to fully tailored suits. Traditional female attire is called a caftan, or kaftan. A common form is a loose-fitting pullover garment, with an ornate V-shaped collar, and tailored and embroidered neck and sleeve lines. Etymology Dashiki is a Yoruba word that means shirt. The cap worn with a dashiki is call a kufi, and is named after the city of Kufi, Nigeria. The word kufi means crown. Sokoto are the pants worn with a dashiki, and are named after the city of Sokoto, in Nigeria. The dashiki in the West The dashiki found a market in America during the Black cultural and political struggles in the 1960s. A prototype was developed in 1967 by Jason Benning, Milton Clarke, Howard Davis, and William Smith. These young professionals formed a company called New Breed to produce dashikis. It was located in a 2-room clothing store at 147th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue in the Harlem section of Manhattan.
lexicalization	eng: daishiki
lexicalization	eng: Dashiki
subclass of	(noun) a garment worn on the upper half of the body shirt

Meaning
French
has gloss	fra: Le Dashiki (dachiqui) est un vêtement coloré traditionnel largement répandu en Afrique occidentale.
lexicalization	fra: Dashiki
Hungarian
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lexicalization	hun: bõ színes tunika
Italian
has gloss	ita: Il dashiki è un colorito abito maschile originario dellAfrica Occidentale che copre più della metà del corpo. Esistono versioni formali e informali di dashiki e varietà più o meno elaborate. Labito tradizionale femminile è invece chiamato kaftan (o boubou).
lexicalization	ita: dashiki
Korean
lexicalization	kor: 다시키
Castilian
has gloss	spa: El dashiki es una colorida prenda de vestir para los hombres, ampliamente utilizada en África occidental. Esta cubre la mitad superior del cuerpo y se cuenta con una versión formal e informal de la prenda. El atuendo de las mujeres se conoce como Kaftan.
lexicalization	spa: dashiki

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