Mufti vs Plainclothes - What's the difference?
mufti | plainclothes | Synonyms |
A Sunni Muslim scholar and interpreter of shari’a law, who can deliver a fatwa
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(uncountable, AU, British, New Zealand) Civilian dress when worn by a member of the military, or casual dress when worn by a pupil of a school who normally would wear uniform
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(usually, of a police officer) Wearing ordinary civilian clothes instead of a uniform, in order to avoid detection.
Ordinary civilian clothes, rather than uniform.
Mufti is a synonym of plainclothes.
As nouns the difference between mufti and plainclothes
is that mufti is a sunni muslim scholar and interpreter of shari’a law, who can deliver a fatwa while plainclothes is ordinary civilian clothes, rather than uniform.As an adjective plainclothes is
(usually|of a police officer) wearing ordinary civilian clothes instead of a uniform, in order to avoid detection.mufti
English
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- He had a suit of summer mufti , and a broad-brimmed blue beaver hat looped with leaves broken from the hedgerows in the lanes, and a Leander scarf tucked full of flowers: loosestrife, meadowrue, orchis, ragged-robin.
- The sailors in mufti returned with 140 quarts of Bar's Leak, half of which was poured into the condenser.
