yashmak
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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 Fritz Leiber
With that he laid an intense grip on the concealing yashmak, tore it away, and so revealed the closely shaven, ghastly hued countenance of the cornered criminal.
From Cleek, the Master Detective by Thomas W. Hanshew
With sidelong and suspicious looks on Russia, Austria cast, Which scarce her yashmak serves to hide, see Turkey gliding past.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 62, January 1, 1872 by Various
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 Sax Rohmer
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 Sax Rohmer
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