burnoose

American  

[ber-noos, bur-noos] / bərˈnus, ˈbɜr nus /

Or burnous

noun

1. a hooded mantle or cloak, as that worn by Arabs.

2. a similar garment worn by women at various periods in Europe and the United States.

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Other Word Forms

• burnoosed adjective
• burnoused adjective

Etymology

Origin of burnoose

1685–95; < French burnous < dialectal Arabic burnūs < Greek bírros < Late Latin birrus birrus

Example Sentences

Merroun slipped out of his white burnoose and into his suit jacket, smiling as he settled into a chair.

From New York Times

While stewing over Marjorie’s rebuff, he is surprised by an unannounced visitor wearing a burnoose, who suggests that the two “experiment” together on Paul Lessingham.

From Washington Post

You sense that worldly taste and wide-ranging interest in the show, in a small selection of Arabic djellabas and burnooses, and photographs of Morocco by Fortuny.

From New York Times

He may live in Tangier for years, but he never learns to wear a burnoose, or forgets to put on the coat his tailor has sent him from home as the latest in fashion.

From Project Gutenberg

At high noon the third day, on the summit of the Serapeum in Egyptian Rhacotis, there appeared a slender figure in the burnoose of an Arab.

From Project Gutenberg