How To Use Burnous In A Sentence
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Presently the door opened, and a young man stood before them clothed in the rough camel-hair garment, or burnous, which is common in the East.
The Brethren
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Over his shoulders, clasped at the neck with a large gold-and-precious-stone buckle of the same mysterious form as the hieroglyphic crest at the head of the Programs, he wore a wonderful burnouse of white and gold fleece, the gold predominating over the white, and flashing fiercely, gorgeously in the sun.
The Mark of the Beast
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He was dressed in a long red and white striped robe and flowing burnous, like one of the forty
THE THIRD CLASS GENIE
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He was dressed in a long red and white striped robe and flowing burnous, like one of the forty
THE THIRD CLASS GENIE
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Village men wear a burnous (a long, hooded robe) and baggy pants.
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She was running and stumbling as she ran, talking to herself, exclaiming, gesticulating; her fair hair was in disorder and her shawl (the burnous and the mantle were unknown in those days) had slipped off her shoulders and was kept on by one pin.
Lieutenant Yergunov's Story
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Moreover, he was clad in a striped Abá-cloak and a burnous, with a steel cutlass by his side and similar gear, while valour shone from his eyes, testifying in favour of him and not in disfavour of him.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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It was a warm evening, butI had flung a great scarlet burnous with gold fringes over my shoulders, and for a moment, so as to enjoy the spectacle more fully, I stood up on our deck.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871
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His dress was that of a miniature man; a white silk burnous, embroidered with gold, over a pale blue vest, stitched in many colours; a splendid red cloak, whose embroidery of stiff gold stood out like a bas-relief; a turban and chechia of thin white muslin; and red-legged boots finer than those of the Spahis.
The Golden Silence
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Circus wearing burnous and shawls and elegant scarfs.
The Imaginary Mistress
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Thibetan monks, including a kind of quilted petticoat and an outer vestment not unlike an Eastern burnous.
Ayesha, the Return of She
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I remember the figure of Abu Bakir, burnouse flapping, holding his phone aloft in salute and squinting into the sun.
Tea in the Sahara: a road trip through the Libyan desert
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A cape called a burnous is sometimes draped over the shoulders; it is made of linen for the summer and wool for the winter.
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I hesitated, I trembled, and when with a supreme effort I at last grasped the burnouse and cast it from me, I still lacked the courage to ascertain what it really was, and stood shivering before the white heap it made upon the floor.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875
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Berber men in Kabylia wore a burnous, a full-length cloak worn with a hood, woven out of very fine white or brown wool.
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So he fell into the trap and unbound her; whereupon she bound him in her stead, after she had stripped him of his clothes and turband and put them on; then covering herself with his burnouse and mounting his horse, she rode to her house, where
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The lady spurred her horse and caught with her feet a portion of his light burnouse, dragging it away.
Travels in Morocco
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He wore a plain white turban, plain burnouse and a pair of common slippers.
Travels in Morocco
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He'd worn a suit and tie and over the top a burnous, chocolate brown.
SKORPION'S DEATH
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A cape called a burnous is sometimes draped over the shoulders; it is made of linen for the summer and wool for the winter.
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Is it at this cost that one acquires civilization and the happiness to own a bowler hat rather than a burnous?
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a nightgown of long-cloth, and wide, short drawers; the whole is covered with a sleeveless _abá_, or burnous, and sometimes with a half-sleeved caftan -- here termed 'tobe' -- garnished with a huge breast-pocket.
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
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I was playing at Naples, and one night, when I threw the body of my murdered wife upon the ottoman in the last act, my burnouse fell off and fixed itself to my waist like
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875
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On looking up you are again surprised to see not a great shining negro in a burnouse, but a Spaniard in tight trousers, with a broad-brimmed hat.
The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia
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He'd worn a suit and tie and over the top a burnous, chocolate brown.
SKORPION'S DEATH
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Village men wear a burnous (a long, hooded robe) and baggy pants.
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Went to see the houses of the inhabitants: they were nearly all the same, the furniture consisting of a burnouse-loom, a couple of millstones, and a quantity of basins, plates, and dishes, hung upon the walls for effect, seldom being used; there were also some skins of grain.
Travels in Morocco
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Curious stories are told of Maroquine adventurers leaving Tangier and Fez as camel-drivers and town-porters, and then assuming the character and style of merchants in Gibraltar, throwing over their shoulders a splendid woollen burnouse, and folding round their heads a thoroughly orthodox turban in large swelling folds of milk-white purity.
Travels in Morocco
