yashmak
Example Sentences
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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
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 Hanshew, Thomas W.
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
The more I thought over it the more I realized what an excellent thing to cover a bearded face a yashmak is.
From Cleek, the Master Detective by Hanshew, Thomas W.
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
