He wore a plain white turban, plain burnouse and a pair of common slippers. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Morocco] Reference
The lady spurred her horse and caught with her feet a portion of his light burnouse, dragging it away. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Morocco] Reference
I remember the figure of Abu Bakir, burnouse flapping, holding his phone aloft in salute and squinting into the sun. From Wordnik.com. [Tea in the Sahara: a road trip through the Libyan desert] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Morocco] Reference
He shewed me his scarlet burnouse and gold-braided coat, given him by our. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846] Reference
I usually am obliged to wear my cloak out of the sun, besides a woollen burnouse. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846] Reference
I was busy, while she was sick, making a white muslin burnouse to wear to a fair. From Wordnik.com. [The Other Girls] Reference
I was much surprised to hear to-day that En-Noor begged a black burnouse from Barth. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government] Reference
Moorish articles of dress I gave to Said, except the burnouse, which I gave away afterwards in Algeria. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846] Reference
He wore a burnouse, and from the long-barrelled musket that lay by his side I concluded it was an Arab. From Wordnik.com. [The Great White Queen A Tale of Treasure and Treason] Reference
Maddened by the obstinacy of the animal, he seized hold of an old burnouse, and rushing up, threw it over its head. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Slaves] Reference
He had descended from his throne, and divested himself of all his splendour, being now dressed in a plain tobe and burnouse. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government] Reference
His Excellency was sitting outside, washed and clean shaved, for once whilst I saw him, with a thin white burnouse thrown over his shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846] Reference
He laid before his silent auditors another drawer which contained a sheet of card-board on which was a fairly good pastel of an Arab in a burnouse. From Wordnik.com. [The Tyranny of the Dark] Reference
On returning to the Colonel's house, Boyton was waited on by a delegation of distinguished Moors; old, white bearded fellows, in turbans and burnouse. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World] Reference
A nervous shiver passed through Guy as he recognized the repulsive face of his old enemy, and instinctively he pulled his burnouse closer around his head. From Wordnik.com. [The River of Darkness, or, Under Africa] Reference
By the light of the torch carried before them by a servant, Honour recognised Lady Antony, with a burnouse thrown over her evening dress, and her husband. From Wordnik.com. [The Path to Honour] Reference
He threw himself on his knees to examine the spot, brushing away with the ragged burnouse one of his Arabs had thrown him the impalpable dust of thirty-five centuries. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt] Reference
The presents are collected according to the means and wealth of each individual merchant, each subscribing his share, one giving a burnouse, others a piece of cloth, or silk, or beads, and what not. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846] Reference
He wore an Arab haick upon his head bound with many yards of brown camel's hair, a long white garment, something like a burnouse, only embroidered at the edge with crimson thread and confined at the waist by. From Wordnik.com. [The Great White Queen A Tale of Treasure and Treason] Reference
When I pay a visit to a person of consequence I always put on my European clothes, which compliment is perfectly understood, for I offended an old Sheikh with going to him with my burnouse on instead of my French cloak. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846] Reference
The very idea of a dromedary carries along with it the cognate spectacle of an Arab on its back -- a slim, sinewy individual of swarth complexion and picturesque garb, a bright burnouse streaming around his body, with a twisted turban on his head. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Slaves] Reference
A white burnouse that showed the shrunken slimness of her arms, came eagerly forward. From Wordnik.com. [Tales from Many Sources Vol. V] Reference
His leathern burnouse, like the. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846] Reference
A burnouse of forty mahboubs will sell in. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government] Reference
Sheikh a fine burnouse and other presents. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government] Reference
A black burnouse, embroidered, thrown over it. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government] Reference
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