In the picturesque contrast of costume it presents, the gayest French uniforms possess no attractions compared with the white and flowing bournous, with even the sheepskin mantle of the poor Arab of the desert, the bright braided caftan of the Moor, the turban, and the fez.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference

A sheik, in flowing white bournous and gaudy head-gear, was with them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Innocents Abroad] Reference

The bournous which his Arab servant brought in at that moment might help him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sister Teresa] Reference

The new-comers instantly knelt at Maldar's feet and kissed the hem of his bournous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Son of Monte-Cristo] Reference

Algernon passed into the box, and was alone with an inanimate shape in blue bournous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rhoda Fleming — Complete] Reference

Carmen hesitated, but Omar at once threw his bournous aside and offered the young lady his arm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Son of Monte-Cristo] Reference

And a magnificent personage, wearing the Legion of Honor on his white bournous, entered the room.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Son of Monte-Cristo] Reference

When at last Coucon succeeded in finding it among the folds of his bournous, she snatched it from him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Son of Monte-Cristo] Reference

In cold weather he puts on a bournous or capote, with a hood such as the Greek fishermen and sailors wear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Jack] Reference

Whenever the crowd came too near he raised his arm, and with a grand sweep of bournous, hand and arm, he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Son of Monte-Cristo] Reference

To-day he had changed his grey bournous for a white one, and all his clothing was white, embroidered with silver.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Silence] Reference

It was his wish to get away from civilisation for a while, to hear Arabic, to learn it if he could, to wear a bournous, to ride.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sister Teresa] Reference

That fellow, he is old, and without a corner, perhaps, where to lay his head, but he walks magnificently in his ragged bournous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sister Teresa] Reference

The Arab smiled, and taking a live pigeon out of his bournous, he allowed it to flutter in the air for a moment, at the end of a string.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sister Teresa] Reference

Some of our Bedouins had fled before the storm, hoping to find shelter; the rest of us, wrapped in our bournous, endured with what patience we could.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jewel of Seven Stars] Reference

Half-crouching and gathering his green bournous closely about him, he crept cautiously back to the window and made the sign of the crescent in the air.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Son of Monte-Cristo] Reference

He stretched forth his hand, and touched stone; he rose to his seat, and found himself lying on his bournous in a bed of dry heather, very soft and odoriferous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Count of Monte Cristo] Reference

Now we meet a tawny Arab, a straggling son of the desert, his striped abba or white bournous (robe-like garments) hanging in graceful folds about his tall, straight figure; and now a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands] Reference

"The Arabs have arrived," he said, and drawing aside the curtain of his tent, he saw at least twenty coming through the blue dusk, white bournous, scimitars, and long-barrelled guns!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sister Teresa] Reference

The bournous thrown over him by the Arab teemed with vermin, and it was evening the next day before he could get a shirt, when a man gave him one, on the promise of getting a new one at Kouka.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley] Reference

"Would you like to see my bournous?" he said, and opening his valise he showed me a splendid one which filled me with admiration, and only shame forbade me to ask him to allow me to try it on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of My Dead Life] Reference

Now we meet a wild, tawny Arab, a straggling son of the desert, his striped abba, or white bournous, hanging in graceful folds about his straight figure; and now a Nubian with only a waistcloth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Due West or Round the World in Ten Months] Reference

But though one can go on thinking year after year about a bournous, one cannot talk for more than two or three hours about one; and though I looked forward to spending at least a fortnight with my friends, and making excursions in the desert, finding summer, as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of My Dead Life] Reference

As the major's camel had not come up, he could not pitch his tent, and he was compelled to lie down in the best shade he could find, and cover himself completely with a cloth and a thick woollen bournous, to keep up a little moisture, by excluding all external air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley] Reference

It seemed to him that he could not get any wetter; but there is no end to the amount of moisture clothes can absorb, a bournous especially, and soon the rain was pouring down Owen's neck; but he would not be better off if he ordered the caravan to stop and his servants to pitch his tent under.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sister Teresa] Reference

There were about four or five thousand of the Arab cavalry awaiting our descent; their white bournous, as they term the long dresses in which they enfold themselves, waving in the wind as they galloped at speed in every direction; while the glitter of their steel arms flashed like lightning upon our eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poacher Joseph Rushbrook] Reference

Nothing else would have satisfied me; my father led the pony, and I have always thought this fantasy exceedingly characteristic; it must be so, for it awoke in me twenty years afterwards; and fanciful and absurd as it may appear, I certainly should have liked to have worn my travelling companion's bournous in the train if only for a few minutes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of My Dead Life] Reference

The roses were already in blossom, and through an opening in the ilex-trees he caught sight of a meadow overflowing with shadow, the shadow of trees and clouds, and of goats too, for there was a herd feeding and trying to escape from the shepherd (a young man wearing a white bournous and a red felt cap) towards the garden, where there were bushes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sister Teresa] Reference

He had two sticking in his bournous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley] Reference

And wearing a turban and a bournous. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of My Dead Life] Reference