понёва

nounfemininecountable

1.
poneva, homespun woollen skirt, peasant woman's skirtclothing
По пра́здникам ба́бушка надева́ла понёву.
On holidays grandmother would put on her poneva.
Historical/ethnographic: a wrap-around skirt of checked homespun wool worn by married peasant women in southern Russia.
2.
(rare) coarse homespun woollen clothtextiles
Ю́бку сши́ли из домотка́ной понёвы.
The skirt was sewn from coarse homespun woollen cloth.
Dialectal, of the fabric rather than the garment.

Examples

В музее хранится старинная понёва крестьянки.
The museum houses an old peasant woman's traditional skirt.