yashmak

Example Sentences

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The more I thought over it the more I realized what an excellent thing to cover a bearded face a yashmak is.

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

"You forget that I do not know the name of the lady in the yashmak," objected Alexander.

From Paul Patoff by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)

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 Crellin, H. N.

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

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