Citations:kaftanlike

Adjective: "resembling a kaftan"

 * 1977, Lin Carter, The City Outside the World, Wildside Press (1999), ISBN 1587150670, page 54:
 * He had done it before and played the part now to perfection, swaggering when he had dismounted in the innyard, hooking his thumbs in his leather belt, which was worn over the kaftanlike cloak, drawn close to conceal the thermalsuit which which would have revealed him at a glance as an Outworlder.
 * 1982, Evelyn Stenbock, Teach Yourself to Write, Writer's Digest Books (1982), ISBN 9780898790931, page 75:
 * You would be amazed at what is hidden by those kaftanlike cloaks and veils that Moroccan women wear!
 * 1996, Victor Pelevin, The Tambourine of the Upper World, 1994, translated from Russian by Andrew Bromfield:
 * The woman was dressed in a long broad kaftanlike homespun shirt decorated with thin strips of reindeer fur, leather braiding, small gleaming plates of metal, and lots of little bells which made a rather pleasant melodic sound at every jolt of the train.
 * 1999, Brigitte Hamann, Hitler's Vienna, Tauris Parke Paperbacks (2010), ISBN 9781848852778, page 167:
 * The garment was apparently kaftanlike, although other witnesses described it as rather more like an old frock coat.
 * 2005, Alan Lightman, A Sense of the Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit, Vintage Books (2005), ISBN 9781400078196, page 14:
 * He sported long red hair, starting to thin, a red beard, sandals, loose kaftanlike shirts splotched with colors, sometimes a gold chain around his neck.
 * 2006, Brian Lumley, Necroscope: The Touch, Tor (2006), ISBN 9780765355218, page 175:
 * Dressed in a white kaftanlike shift in common with her companions, she reminded Gunter Ganzer of nothing so much as one of the candles in a three-pronged candelabra ... a thought that, knowing how easily she could reach him, he immediately put out of his head!
 * 2006, Dana Marton, Undercover Sheik, Harlequin (2006), ISBN 9780373887361, page 207:
 * This one consisted of loose pants under a kaftanlike top that was a sea of silverish shimmer, the color of the desert moon in winter.
 * 2011, Andrew Wiget & Olga Balalaeva, Khanty, People of the Taiga: Surviving the 20th Century, University of Alaska Press (2011), ISBN 9781602231245, page 141:
 * According to one Iugan Khant, it is prohibited to make or keep images of Kon Iki, and the kaftanlike fur coat substitutes for the kind of wooden image regularly made for other deities.