Crossword-Solution: KABAYA 6 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

Their lower garment, or sarong, reaching from the waist to the ankles, is usually of red cotton of a small check, with stripes in the front, above which is worn a loose sleeved garment, called a kabaya, reaching to the knees, and clasped in front with silver or gold, and frequently with diamond ornaments.

She wore a black veil over her head, and her kabaya, or upper garment, was fastened with three diamond clasps.

She wore a rich, striped, red silk sarong, and a very short, green silk kabaya with diamond clasps; but I saw very little of her dress or herself, because she was almost enveloped in a pure white veil of a fine woolen material spangled with gold stars, and she concealed so much of her face with it, in consequence of the presence of the Rajah Moussa, that I only rarely got a glimpse of the magnificent diamond solitaires in her ears.

The costume of the Malay women consists of the 'sarong,' a cloth about 3½ yards long and 1½ wide, which is wound round the body and held by a belt and then rolled up just above the feet; over this a wide coat called a 'kabaya' is worn, and over all a 'slendang,' which is very like a 'sarong,' but is worn hanging over one shoulder, and in this is slung anything too large to be easily carried in the hands--even the baby.

One rather prominent detail was a lady at a neighbouring table dressed only in a sarong and kabaya, with her extremities bare.