Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Her fancy dress, save for the green-gray stockings, the pseudo-Turkish slippers, and baggy silk trousered ends natural to a Corsair's bride, was hidden in a large black-silk-hooded opera-cloak.

From Ann Veronica, a modern love story by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

For the small pictures of pulpy babies photographed as cupids, the tin souvenirs and the pseudo-Turkish scarves draped over trunks rob the rooms of the simplicity which is their only merit.

From The Job An American Novel by Lewis, Sinclair

A "den" to him means an airless cubby-hole of a room hung with pseudo-Turkish draperies and papier-mâché shields and weapons, and he has a mighty aversion to it.

From The House in Good Taste by Wolfe, Elsie de

We left Miss Stanley with Ann Veronica's fancy dress in her hands and her eyes directed to Ann Veronica's pseudo-Turkish slippers.

From Ann Veronica, a modern love story by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

It is, however, quite another thing, dealing with a pseudo-Turkish language of love.

From The Works of Aphra Behn Volume V by Summers, Montague