comboy
Appearance
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]comboy (plural comboys)
- (obsolete) A kind of skirt or kilt of white calico, worn by the Sinhalese in the manner of a sarong.
- 1870, Mission Life; Or Home and Foreign Church Work, page 203:
- There you may see the effeminate-looking Singhalese, with their long hair, tortoiseshell combs, and tight petticoats or "comboys," the national dress since the days of old Robert Knox […]
References
[edit]- Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “comboy”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].
Spanish
[edit]Noun
[edit]comboy m (plural comboyes)