Also 8 ferigee, ferijee. [Turk. ferājé, vulgarly fèrèjé.] (See quots.)
1717. Lady M. W. Montagu, Let., 1 April (1825), 153. Their shapes are also wholly concealed, by a thing they call a ferigee.
1743. R. Pococke, Descr. East, I. IV. v. 189. The dress of ceremony of the Turks, call’d the Ferijee, made like a night-gown.
1882. E. O’Donovan, Merv Oasis, I. x. 170. A Persian lady, wrapped in the all-enveloping mantle of calico which shrouds her from head to heel, and is here styled the feridgi.
