yashmak

Example Sentences

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As our caique again glided swiftly down the stream, we passed many similar vessels, containing seven or eight Turkish women each, and up went the yashmak at our approach.

From Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833 by Auldjo, John

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

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

The three ladies of the yashmak ran screaming from their vengeance-seeking victims, Sime pursuing two, and Cairn hard upon the heels of the third.

From Brood of the Witch-Queen by Rohmer, Sax