"tobe" meaning in English

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      "form": "tobes",
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          "ref": "1889, Edinburgh Review, page 391:",
          "text": "It consists, for men and women alike, of a ‘tobe,’ or straight piece of cotton cloth (printed, or white with a crimson border), two breadths wide, and some twelve feet long, draped in graceful folds about the body, and fastened on the left shoulder.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Leila Aboulela, Lyrics Alley, page 4:",
          "text": "She loved travelling to Egypt, and how she didn’t have to wear a tobe in Cairo.",
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      "glosses": [
        "A cotton garment worn in parts of northern Africa."
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          "cotton",
          "cotton"
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          "garment",
          "garment"
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/təʊb/"
    }
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  "word": "tobe"
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        },
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          "text": "She loved travelling to Egypt, and how she didn’t have to wear a tobe in Cairo.",
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      "ipa": "/təʊb/"
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