Abb vs Aba - What's the difference?
abb | aba |
A type of yarn for the warp.
A rough wool from the inferior parts of the fleece, used for the woof or weft.
(UK) A filling pick used in weaving.
A coarse, often striped, felted fabric from the Middle East, woven from goat or camel hair.
A loose-fitting sleeveless garment, made from aba or silk, worn by Arabs.
* 1957 , Lawrence Durrell, Justine :
As nouns the difference between abb and aba
is that abb is a type of yarn for the warp while aba is man, especially a brazilian male indian.abb
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Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
*aba
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Etymology 1
. Compare (abaya).Alternative forms
* abbaNoun
(en noun)- Here Nessim would sit night after night in the winter, dressed in his old rust-coloured abba , staring gravely at Betelgeuse, or hovering over books of calculations for all the world like a medieval soothsayer.
