yashmak
Example Sentences
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"You forget that I do not know the name of the lady in the yashmak," objected Alexander.
From Paul Patoff by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
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 W. H. Davenport Adams
Sylvia remembered her ambition to visit the East, when she herself wore a yashmak in Open Sesame: here it was fulfilling perfectly her most daring hopes.
From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by Compton MacKenzie
I could not explain myself to them, still less justify, having that miserable veil of reserve close over my mouth, like a yashmak.
From Lore of Proserpine by Maurice Henry Hewlett
He probably knew us by sight, for we had constantly met him and the lady with the thick yashmak.
From Paul Patoff by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
