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Definition of Kikoi
1. Noun. A piece of colored cloth used as clothing and wrapped around the waist and legs or shoulders. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Kikoi
1. in East Africa, a striped cloth worn around the waist [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kikoi
Literary usage of Kikoi
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Kenya and Tanzania by Claude Herve-Bazin, Judith Farr (2000)
"The heavier weave kikoi, to be found in villages along the coast, is worn by men
knotted round ... Kongo, kikoi and co. Makonde The Makonde ebony carvings, ..."
2. Commercial Relations of the United States with Foreign Countries by United States Dept. of State, Dept. of State, United States, Bureau of Foreign Commerce (1898)
"Loin cloths of gray shirtings, with borders, «kikoi," plain weave, ... The goods
are used partly as turbans, " kilemba," and aprons, " kikoi," ..."
3. A Dictionary of the Hawaiian Language to which is Appended an English by Lorrin Andrews (1865)
"See kikoi. To skip about, as in working in one place and then in another; applied
to reading or teaching the alphabet, to read skipping about; ..."
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