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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M. Steeg disported a flowing burnoose, under which he wore a gaudy pair of red breeches and a pullover sweater.
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Savaris and Spahis wearing the bright colored burnoose curbed their desert steeds upon the cobblestones of Rome.
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When he first dons the white burnoose of a princely Bedouin, he takes an almost womanish delight in his new finery.
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It is almost impossible to imagine Congressman Kunkel wearing a burnoose, strumming a guitar by moonlight, or joining the Foreign Legion to forget Dorothy Lamour.
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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 Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Elizabeth Miller
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