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.
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
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"The flick of a burnoose, the beating of a donkey may mean something�who knows?"
From Time Magazine Archive
Savaris and Spahis wearing the bright colored burnoose curbed their desert steeds upon the cobblestones of Rome.
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
Feverishly he wipes the gluey carrion on a corner of his burnoose.
From Time Magazine Archive
With that and a burnoose your face and hands only will be visible.
From The Dash for Khartoum A Tale of Nile Expedition by Nash, Joseph
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