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إِِعْجَازَةٌ ذ A thing (S, O, K, TA) resembling a pillow, (O, TA,) with which a woman enlarges [in appearance] her hinder part, (S, O, K, TA,) binding it upon that part, (O, TA,) in order that she may be thought to be large in her hinder part, (O, K, TA,) when she is not so; (TA;) as also ↓ عِجَازَةٌ . (O, K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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