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Word: gandourah (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1947-1947
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Usage:

...culture, there is an independence movement too. Fiery, 54-year-old Messali Hadj, Algerian Arab nationalist, toured the restless Kabylie district in March, repeated in village after village: "For 116 years we have been under the French yoke. Still we sleep on the ground, we wear only a simple gandourah, we walk barefoot, and most of us go three or four days without eating a piece of cake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Mission in Doubt | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

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