Sentence examples for overgarment from inspiring English sources

The ghaghra and coli continue to be basic elements of Muslim women's dress, the loose front panel replaced by the traditional sari, which is worn as an overgarment, one end draped around the hips, the other carried up over the shoulder or head.

As a more formal overgarment, men wear a knee-length coat known as a sherwani; women frequently wear a light shawl called a dupatta.

For example, men wore breeches full at the waist, a doublet and jerkin, and a hip-length, loose overgarment that had been fashionable in Europe in the later 16th century.

Her red dress with embroidered trimmings, seen through a translucent overgarment of muslin, reveals a concern for understated refinement.

For his court appearance on Monday, Mr. Damache dressed in the traditional garb of the Touareg nomads of the North African desert, with a flowing black overgarment and a turban of black cotton wrapped so as to leave only a narrow slit for his eyes.

In a religious center like Karbala, most women wear a flowing head-to-toe black overgarment, known as an abaya, which provides an easy way to conceal an explosive vest or belt.

While most military forces have at least some defense against chemical attack, this is not the case for most civilian populations, which typically have no individual protective equipment (masks, overgarments, boots, or gloves) or collective protection shelters.

Modern protective overgarments are made of fabric containing activated charcoal or other adsorptive forms of carbon.

Protection against blister agents requires an effective gas mask and protective overgarments.

Developing and fielding effective biological weapon sensors that can trigger an alarm would allow personnel to don masks before exposure, get into protective overgarments, and go inside, preferably into toxic-free collective protection shelters.

Defense against nerve agents requires a skintight gas mask and special protective overgarments.