Noun

1. A Muslim scholar and interpreter of shari’a law, who can deliver a fatwa
2. Civilian dress when worn by a member of the military, or casual dress when worn by a pupil of a school who normally would wear uniform

Quotations

• 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 91

  He had a suit of summer mufti, and a broad-brimmed blue beaver hat looped with leaves broken from the hedgerows in the lanes, and a Leander scarf tucked full of flowers: loosestrife, meadowrue, orchis, ragged-robin.