Citations:vraka

English citations of vraka, vrakes, and vraki

vraka

one pair (singular)

1. • 1989, Ararat (published by the Armenian General Benevolent Union), volume 30, page 19:

     He is about thirty and he is wearing a vraka (short, full trousers).

   • 1996, Vassos Argyrou, Tradition and Modernity in the Mediterranean (ISBN: 0521560950), page 136:

     Naturally, economic conditions played their part since a vraka cost C£20 more than a pair of trousers.

   • 2002, Maria Hnaraki, Into the labyrinth, unraveling Ariadne's thread: Cretan music identity and aesthetics, page 175:

     That is usually a plain dark shirt and a vraka (full breeches).

one pair (but plural-ish)

1. • 1984, Margaret Rome, Castle of the Lion (ISBN: 0373026153), page 76:

     When he scrambled back on to the road to calm his flock with a few gruff grunts and an assortment of unintelligible noises she saw that he was wearing vraka, the traditional baggy trousers favoured by some of the older peasants, […]

multiple pairs (plural)

1. • 2000, Laura Brooks, The Greek Isles (ISBN: 0760745188), page 21:

     On Lefkada and Crete, it is not unusual to find men wearing vraka, or baggy trousers, and vests, along with the high boots known as stivania. Women wear long, dark, pleated skirts woven on a traditional loom, and long silk scarves or kerchiefs […]

vrakes

one pair (plural-ish)

1. • 1998, G. Philippou Pieridēs, Donald E. Martin, Tetralogy of the times: stories of Cyprus, page 257:

     He was a middle-aged gentleman, tall, austere, with whitish blond mustache and thin, uncombed hair. He was wearing vrakes and heavy boots. A woman went by in haste down the slope.

multiple pairs (plural)

1. • 1957, Anne Anthony, Greek holiday, page 86:

     The older women, their heads enveloped in black kerchiefs, are all dressed in the traditional long, full black skirt, wrapped in shawls, and the old men all wear vrakes. Long-robed priests, draped in stoles and clutching service books, flutter […]

   • 1974, Helen Papanikolas, Toil and rage in a new land: the Greek immigrants in Utah, page 109:

     Many Greeks came from Crete wearing vrakes, an amulet of Cretan earth pinned to their shirts.

vraki

one pair (plural-ish)

1. • 1991, Dan Shiaras, Fran Swarbrick, Hey, Greek!: truth-telling time by a Greek-American, page 7:

     After the ceremony, Gus told me, Pa and Ma went to a special bedroom, and there they stayed for a short while, Gus waiting anxiously outside. Dad then opened the bedroom door and threw out the vraki, or bride's pants, […]

multiple pairs (plural)

1. • 1979, James Snowden, The folk dress of Europe, page 54:

     Vraki of different degrees and length of fullness, in dark cloth, sometimes worn over white […]