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He no longer wears the peasant costume he used when playing the role of latter-day god, appears instead in a dirty white silk suit, two-toned shoes, a striped silk shirt and a shining tarbush.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was dressed in a light grey suit, and wore the tarbush.

From Bella Donna A Novel by Hichens, Robert Smythe

The principal elements of the plant associations in which the turtles were found were creosote bush, yucca, mesquite, juniper, tarbush, and grasses.

From Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz by Legler, John M.

At this door Baroudi now appeared, dressed in a suit of flannel, wearing the tarbush, and holding in his hand a great palm-leaf fan.

From Bella Donna A Novel by Hichens, Robert Smythe

He wore a dirty tarbush; his clothes were made of rough canvas, and he looked very much like the fireman of an engine.

From Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892 by Wingate, F. R.