haick
- a variation of haik.
Example Sentences
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Nearer, a woman's red haick interposes, the single stain of bright colour breaking the indefinite brown and grey of the plain.
From Saint Augustin by O'Sullivan, Vincent
The haick is attached to the cap by twenty or thirty twisted coils of camel's-hair rope, and a fringe of it is allowed to fall on the forehead to shade the eyes.
From The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 2 (of 10) From the Battle of Mons to the Fall of Antwerp. by Parrott, James Edward
Just at that moment the black face of that worthy, rendered darker by the snow-white haick that surrounded it, appeared among the tangled bamboos.
From The Great White Queen A Tale of Treasure and Treason by Le Queux, William
Each man wears on his head a white felt cap covered by a haick, or long strip of woollen gauze which hangs flat at the back of the head, covering the neck and shoulders.
From The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 2 (of 10) From the Battle of Mons to the Fall of Antwerp. by Parrott, James Edward
The heavy folds of a Bedouin's haick, brushing the papers off the bench, broke the thread of his musings.
From Under Two Flags by Ouida
