yashmak
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of yashmak
First recorded in 1835–45, yashmak is from the Turkish word yaşmak
Example Sentences
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He falls in love with a Moorish girl, and innocently allows himself to be persuaded that a substitute is the beauty whom he glimpsed through the yashmak.
From A Novelist on Novels by Walter Lionel George
Their faces are veiled with something like the yashmak of Egypt, but it is of plain blue calico, a little embroidered.
From Southern Arabia by Theodore Bent
Where chrysanthemum and yashmak turban and tarboosh, uraeus and Indian plume had mingled gaily, no soul remained; but yet—he was in error ... someone did remain.
From Brood of the Witch-Queen by Sax Rohmer
She wore no yashmak, for Selim, though professing the Moslem faith, was somewhat lax in carrying out its articles.
From The Secret Witness by George Gibbs
Sime he had hopelessly lost, as around fountain and flower-bed, arbour and palm trunk he leapt in pursuit of the elusive yashmak.
From Brood of the Witch-Queen by Sax Rohmer
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