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2. Boubou (clothing) - Wikipedia

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   The boubou or grand boubou is a flowing wide-sleeved robe worn across West Africa, and to a lesser extent in North Africa, related to the dashiki suit. [ 1 ] The garments and its variations are known by various names in different ethnic groups and languages.

3. Khalat - Wikipedia

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   In Romanian the word is halat is used, meaning dressing gown, bathrobe, smock, camouflage cloak, etc. A similar garment is known as Chapan in Turkic. The khalat (Yiddish: כלאַט, romanized: khlat) was also worn by Ashkenazi Jewish men in Eastern Europe before the early 20th century. These were long, close-fitting coats with shawl collars ...

4. Sack-back gown - Wikipedia

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   The sack-back gown or robe à la française was a women's fashion of 18th century Europe. [1] At the beginning of the century, the sack-back gown was a very informal style of dress. At its most informal, it was unfitted both front and back and called a sacque, contouche, or robe battante. By the 1770s the sack-back gown was second only to court ...

5. Robe - Wikipedia

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   A robe is a loose-fitting outer garment. [1] [2] Unlike garments described as capes or cloaks, robes usually have sleeves. The English word robe derives from Middle English robe ("garment"), borrowed from Old French robe ("booty, spoils"), itself taken from the Frankish word *rouba ("spoils, things stolen, clothes"), and is related to the word ...

6. 1400–1500 in European fashion - Wikipedia

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   The floor-length sleeves were later wrist-length but very full, forming a bag or sack sleeve, or were worn off the arm, hanging ornamentally behind. This style of sleeve appeared towards the 1430s and it is at this time, that in French, the term "houppelande" gets replaced by the word "robe" or gown. [ 9 ]

7. Lobby group asks Trump for investment rules overhaul - AOL

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   A trade group has asked the incoming Trump administration to consider a "comprehensive plan" for updating the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's regulatory framework for investment ...