yashmak

Example Sentences

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But the woman did not smile; he could see that much through the gauzy yashmak, and her eyes grew grave and her forehead contracted.

From An American Suffragette by Stevens, Isaac Newton

Her bewitching eyes peeped through two holes in a muslin yashmak spangled with silver stars.

From Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance by Coffin, Charles Carleton

His face was very grave, for there was a look in the bright eyes of the girl in the yashmak which, professionally, he did not like.

From Brood of the Witch-Queen by Rohmer, Sax

He falls in love with a Moorish girl, and innocently allows himself to be persuaded that a substitute is the beauty whom he glimpsed through the yashmak.

From A Novelist on Novels by George, Walter Lionel

I could not explain myself to them, still less justify, having that miserable veil of reserve close over my mouth, like a yashmak.

From Lore of Proserpine by Hewlett, Maurice Henry