yashmak

Example Sentences

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He drew out his pancake phone and stretched it so that it covered both their lower faces, like a double yashmak.

From The Creature from Cleveland Depths by Leiber, Fritz

Where chrysanthemum and yashmak turban and tarboosh, uraeus and Indian plume had mingled gaily, no soul remained; but yet—he was in error ... someone did remain.

From Brood of the Witch-Queen by Rohmer, Sax

She suddenly withdraws the yashmak, shines upon your heart and soul with all the pomp and might of her beauty.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

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

In all her photographs Zara el-Khala appeared veiled, in the Eastern manner; that is to say, she wore a white silk yashmak which concealed all her face except her magnificent eyes!

From The Golden Scorpion by Rohmer, Sax