yashmak
Example Sentences
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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 John Auldjo
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
Her bewitching eyes peeped through two holes in a muslin yashmak spangled with silver stars.
From Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance by Charles Carleton Coffin
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 Sax Rohmer
His face was very grave, for there was a look in the bright eyes of the girl in the yashmak which, professionally, he did not like.
From Brood of the Witch-Queen by Sax Rohmer
