yashmak

Example Sentences

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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 Bent, Theodore

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

Here you, my dear, Emruld, put your yashmak up a bit higher.

From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by MacKenzie, Compton

On the street a shroud-like robe called yashmak, usually white, but sometimes crimson, purple, or black, covers them from head to foot.

From Across Asia on a Bicycle by Allen, Thomas Gaskell

She has very fine eyes, and that's about all I can tell you, sir, because she wears a yashmak.

From The Hand Of Fu-Manchu Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor by Rohmer, Sax