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Unread 07-26-2018, 10:41 PM
John Isbell John Isbell is offline
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This is hardly news, but pajama is a Hindi word, and we get the concept from the Ottomans:

https://fashion-history.lovetoknow.c...rigins-pajamas

So "Byzantine pajamas" seems a reasonably apt descriptor for a pre-Conquest church in Istanbul (like the Hagia Sophia).

Cheers,
John
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