yashmak

Example Sentences

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In her excitement she managed, somehow, to snap or loosen the fastening which held her yashmak.

From Cleek, the Master Detective by Hanshew, Thomas W.

Peeping over the balconies may be seen black eyes that gleam above the yashmak or Oriental veil worn by the poorer classes.

From The Critic in the Orient by Fitch, George Hamlin

Sylvia remembered her ambition to visit the East, when she herself wore a yashmak in Open Sesame: here it was fulfilling perfectly her most daring hopes.

From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by MacKenzie, Compton

It was that of a woman who wore the black silk dress and the white yashmak of the Moslem, and who was bending forward looking into the room.

From Brood of the Witch-Queen by Rohmer, Sax

Sime he had hopelessly lost, as around fountain and flower-bed, arbour and palm trunk he leapt in pursuit of the elusive yashmak.

From Brood of the Witch-Queen by Rohmer, Sax