yashmak

Example Sentences

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In her excitement she managed, somehow, to snap or loosen the fastening which held her yashmak.

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

On her head she wore a white turban; from her forehead a veil, or yashmak, of purple wool fell down to her shoulders.

From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by Adams, W. H. Davenport

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

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

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