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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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
But Booth's burnoose could not disguise his lurching, hand-wringing acting.
From Time Magazine Archive
No more romantic figure emerged from World War I than the shadowy desert raider in flowing white burnoose known as Lawrence of Arabia.
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
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 Miller, Elizabeth
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