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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Peeping over the balconies may be seen black eyes that gleam above the yashmak or Oriental veil worn by the poorer classes.
From The Critic in the Orient by Fitch, George Hamlin
I could not explain myself to them, still less justify, having that miserable veil of reserve close over my mouth, like a yashmak.
From Lore of Proserpine by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
On her head she wore a white turban; from her forehead a veil, or yashmak, of purple wool fell down to her shoulders.
From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by Adams, W. H. Davenport
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 George, Walter Lionel
But the woman did not smile; he could see that much through the gauzy yashmak, and her eyes grew grave and her forehead contracted.
From An American Suffragette by Stevens, Isaac Newton
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