burnoose
noun
a hooded mantle or cloak, as that worn by Arabs.
Example Sentences
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Sidi-bel-Abbés at last! and the train slowing down along the platform of an insignificant station, which might have been in the South of France, save for a few burnoused Arabs.
From A Soldier of the Legion by C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson
At one place a single burnoused Arab, leaning on his elbows, reclined full length on the sky-line of a clean-cut sandhill.
From African Camp Fires by Stewart Edward White
