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Burnous   Listen
noun
Burnous, Burnoose  n.  
1.
A cloaklike garment and hood woven in one piece, worn by Arabs.
2.
A combination cloak and hood worn by women. (Variously written bournous, bernouse, bornous, etc)





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"Burnous" Quotes from Famous Books



... baggage trucks ten or a dozen Moroccan soldiers have seated themselves, crosslegged, and draped in their noble burnous, they gently puff smoke into the air, without a movement, without a gesture, without a sound, apparently utterly oblivious to the noisy employes, or the thundering of ...
— With Those Who Wait • Frances Wilson Huard
... them?" And lingering in the middle of the room, with her arm passed into Madame Grandoni's, she let her eyes wander slowly from group to group. They were of course observing her. Standing in the little circle of lamplight, with the hood of an Eastern burnous, shot with silver threads, falling back from her beautiful head, one hand gathering together its voluminous, shimmering folds, and the other playing with the silken top-knot on the uplifted head of her poodle, she was a figure ...
— Roderick Hudson • Henry James


Words linked to "Burnous" :   burnoose


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