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n. - A long hooded cloak woven of wool in one piece.

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Usage examples (31)
  • 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 burnous is the epitome of Arab inefficiency.
  • Circus wearing burnous and shawls and elegant scarfs.
  • She answered by getting up, and he took the burnous off the log and folded it about her shoulders.
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