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قَبَآءٌ

Root: قبو

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قَبَآءٌ [A kind of tunic, resembling the قَفْتَانٌ, generally reaching to the middle of the shank, divided down the front, and made to overlap over the chest. So in the present day. See also Dozy, Dict. des noms de vêtements, pp. 352-62.]
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