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Meaning of dogi | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

A judo or karate uniform.

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Examples

“Ninpo is a living art and that means the shidoshi-level teachers are all artists of a very physical nature with their own creative viewpoint being exercised to bring the traditional learnings of the schools into alignment with their own personality and the reality of our times. This means that dogi are sometimes replaced with cammies when people are training in the woods or street clothes when training in town.”
“We were standing on the lawn near the pool in our bright white dogis, he with his black belt and I with my white.”
“The present author assumes that these dōgi were worn by the bugaku performers off stage as gowns during intervals.”
“From behind uke, slide your right hand up across the front of his neck and hold onto the left inside collar of his dōgi; […]”
“空手道 Karatedo: Dōgi Care”
“The most disparate kinds of objects lay heaped on top of each other topsy-turvy: […] trousers and shirts and socks and shoes all mixed together with innumerable dōgi and service kimonos for everyday use with belts, tabi, and geta, newspapers, plates, chopsticks and letters, envelopes and advertisement-covered plastic bags lying everywhere, […]”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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