burnoose
Americannoun
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a hooded mantle or cloak, as that worn by Arabs.
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a similar garment worn by women at various periods in Europe and the United States.
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Etymology
Origin of burnoose
1685–95; < French burnous < dialectal Arabic burnūs < Greek bírros < Late Latin birrus birrus
Example Sentences
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M. Steeg disported a flowing burnoose, under which he wore a gaudy pair of red breeches and a pullover sweater.
From Time Magazine Archive
To look his best, Tenor Ramon Vinay turned up in the purple burnoose that famed Actor Edwin Booth wore as Othello.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thereupon, his patience unexhausted, he gathered up his burnoose, and with appropriate words, since the mountain would not come to him, he went to the mountain.
From Time Magazine Archive
After a dervish whirl of partygoing, the Sultan doffed his white burnoose, slipped into hunting knickers for a shooting party at Marly-le-Roi where he bagged 76 pheasants, ten hares, two partridges.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were many people, including women, in Western dress, but there were also many women in cloaks, and men in the traditional Arab bornoss, the enveloping robe called a burnoose in English.
From The Egyptian Cat Mystery by Goodwin, Harold L. (Harold Leland)
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