yashmak
Example Sentences
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Here you, my dear, Emruld, put your yashmak up a bit higher.
From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by Compton MacKenzie
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
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
A pretty girl wearing a yashmak, who, with two similarly attired companions, was making her way to the entrance, attracted his attention; she seemed to be on the point of swooning.
From Brood of the Witch-Queen by Sax Rohmer
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
