waihīnau
1. (noun) cloak of dressed flax dyed black.
E mau ana a Te Mutu (te rangatira o te hapū o Ngāpuhi a Te Ihutai) i te korowai muka harakeke e kīia ana he waihīnau (nā te rumaki i te kahu ki roto i te wai hīnau) (Te Ara 2017). / Te Mutu (the chief of the Ihutai hapū of Ngā Puhi) wears a cloak of muka fibre called a waihīnau (so-called from the immersion of the cloak in a solution of hīnau bark).
