Fustanella

Word FUSTANELLA
Character 10
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Definitions and meanings of "Fustanella"

What do we mean by fustanella?

A form of skirt or kilt traditionally worn by men in parts of the Balkans.

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The word "fustanella" in example sentences

Then came his first word in the semifinals: "fustanella." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Everyone watched Friday as Tim asked for a definition of fustanella. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Centreville's Tim Ruiter, who tied for second a year ago and was D. C.'s great home in 2010, just crashed out on "fustanella." ❋ Unknown (2010)

The doctor had always wanted a set of fustanella and had never been able to afford it. ❋ De Bernieres, Louis (2003)

The doctor indicated the fustanella; 'Is not our cloths of Cephallonia.' ❋ De Bernieres, Louis (2003)

He saw Alekos, which was surprising enough, but he also saw a very tall fair-haired man dressed in the fustanella of an evzone. ❋ De Bernieres, Louis (2003)

Now and then the riders saw some dusty peasants -- brown and sun-dried men wearing the fustanella, and shoes with turned-up toes ornamented with big black tassels; women with dingy handkerchiefs tied over their heads; children who looked almost like the spawn of the sun in their healthy, bright-eyed brownness. ❋ Robert Smythe Hichens (1907)

He was followed by his two attendants, the Oriental carrying a frame-work of polished metal, not unlike a low narrow bed, which he set down in the middle of the room; while the Georgian lad, who had exchanged his fustanella and embroidered jacket for a flowing white robe, bore in his hands a crystal globe set in a gold stand. ❋ Edith Wharton (1899)

Albanian Arnauts most of them, splendid fellows, blue-eyed, with long fair moustaches, dressed in the fustanella and the rest of the picturesque palikare costume. ❋ Prince De Joinville (1859)

Wouvermans_, were held by Fonblanque's robust Pandour in his crimson jacket and white fustanella. ❋ Andrew Archibald Paton (1842)

I had put on my best clothes: the white fustanella fell in rich folds around my hips, the red jacket fitted tight and close, the tassel on my fez cap was silver, and in my girdle gleamed a knife and my pistols. ❋ Alfred Walter Bayes (1840)

-- [MS.D. erased.] [171] [The _camese_ is the _fustanella_ or white kilt of the Toska, a branch of the Albanian, or Shkipetar, race. ❋ George Gordon Byron Byron (1806)

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