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
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Savaris and Spahis wearing the bright colored burnoose curbed their desert steeds upon the cobblestones of Rome.
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
With his skin like a mandarin orange dipped in sand, his voice intimate and cryptic, his haunted eyes staring from inside his burnoose, O'Toole creates a towering, tragic, high-camp sheik of Araby.
From Time Magazine Archive
Prince Faisal, son of King Ibn Saud, wore a snow-white burnoose and golden head cord, maintained Mohammedan sobriety, but was not above spending an evening with his delegation at the circus in New York.
From Time Magazine Archive
At least half the women still wore the haik and veil, half the men the burnoose.
From Border, Breed Nor Birth by Mack Reynolds
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