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English
Etymology
From Laboya + -n.
Adjective
Laboyan (not comparable)
- From, or pertaining to, Laboya.
1993, Marie-Louise Nabholz-Kartaschoff, Ruth Barnes, David J. Stuart-Fox, editors, Weaving Patterns of Life: Indonesian Textile Symposium 1991, Switzerland: Museum of Ethnography, Basel, →ISBN, page 254:As it is the most splendid creation within the Laboyan textile tradition, the value of this type of large men's wrap was perhaps always twofold.
1997, Webb Keane, “Chapter 3: Things of Value”, in Signs of Recognition: Powers and Hazards of Representation in an Indonesian Society, London: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 79:Moreover, ambiguity may be tactically advantageous, as suggested by Edgar Keller's (1992: 258) account of a rich, self-made Laboyan who favored an idiosyncratic style of tying his headcloth, with the ends handing down.