Glossary entry

Arabic term or phrase:

جونيلة قطيفة

English translation:

Velvet Skirt

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Arabic term

جونيلة قطيفة

Arabic to English Social Sciences Textiles / Clothing / Fashion
Country: Egypt

An item of clothing.

From Googling, I can see that جونيلة is a skirt, but I am not sure what is meant by جونيلة قطيفة.

Also, the person in this text talks about قطيفة on its own, as a separate article of clothing:

قطيفة حرير سودة وطويلة

Does قطيفة here mean "gown" or does it have a different meaning?

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Velvet Skirt

قطيفة = مخمل = Velvet
Note from asker:
Thank you, Taghreed. In that case, maybe the قطيفة in my second example is "silk velvet". I haven't heard of this before, but I looked up velvet in Wikipedia and saw that some types of velvet are made from silk fibers.
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corduroy skirt

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