man-dress
n.— «“There’s a guy in a white man-dress,” one soldier calls out, referring to the full-length dishdash worn by Iraqi men.» —“Soldier one moment, peacekeeper the next” by Nicholas Blanford in Khaldiyah, Iraq Christian Science Monitor (Boston, Mass.) Mar. 5, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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