yashmak
Example Sentences
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Its adoption is most probably connected with the Oriental veil or yashmak of the Eastern women.
From The Story of Malta by Maturin Murray Ballou
Their faces are veiled with something like the yashmak of Egypt, but it is of plain blue calico, a little embroidered.
From Southern Arabia by Theodore Bent
The dress of all, both men and women, is strange and hideous, and one looks in vain for the well-folded turban, or the decent modest yashmak.
From Tales of the Caliph by H. N. Crellin
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 Sax Rohmer
In her excitement she managed, somehow, to snap or loosen the fastening which held her yashmak.
From Cleek, the Master Detective by Thomas W. Hanshew
