yashmak
Example Sentences
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Its adoption is most probably connected with the Oriental veil or yashmak of the Eastern women.
From The Story of Malta by Maturin Murray Ballou
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
On the street a shroud-like robe called yashmak, usually white, but sometimes crimson, purple, or black, covers them from head to foot.
From Across Asia on a Bicycle by Thomas Gaskell Allen
But the woman did not smile; he could see that much through the gauzy yashmak, and her eyes grew grave and her forehead contracted.
From An American Suffragette by Isaac Newton Stevens
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
