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  • n  an Arab headdress consisting of a square piece of cloth folded into a triangle and fastened over the crown by an agal

  • He started wearing a red-and-white kaffiyeh, or headdress, and expensive watches and clothes, although he was unemployed for much of the time.
  • Says Aymad, a tunnel digger who wears a Palestinian kaffiyeh wrapped around his head: "The Israelis destroyed dozens of tunnels, but many more are left undamaged, and as long as .
  • With time the kaffiyeh became politically neutral and lost some of its freshness.

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