ashoebi

English edit

ashoebi (uncountable)

Clothes made from the same fabric to be worn by several people during a festive occasion in Sierra Leone.
- 1987, John Wallace Nunley, Moving with the face of the devil: art and politics in urban West Africa:
  The women wore long uniform dresses or ashoebi of brown print; their hair was decorated with cowrie shells to complement the fancy masquerade.