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Definition of Bashlyk
1. a cloth hood [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bashlyk
Literary usage of Bashlyk
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Farthest North: Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship by Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Neumann Sverdrup (1897)
"... figures clad in heavy robes of reindeer - skin, which nearly touched the deck.
On their heads they wore peculiar " bashlyk "-like caps of ..."
2. Turkistan: Notes of a Journey in Russian Turkistan, Khokand, Bukhara, and Kuldja by Eugene Schuyler (1876)
"... was a red tippet about my throat, and a brown bashlyk of soldier's cloth tied
over my head, with its tall peak sticking up. ..."
3. Beasts, Men and Gods by Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski (1922)
"... off his bashlyk or cap-like head covering. All of the Lamas fell to their
knees as they recognized the man who had been long ago described in the sacred ..."
4. World's Columbian Exposition 1893, Chicago: Catalogue of the Russian Section by Soviet Union General'nyi kommisar russkogo otdiela vsemirnoi kolumbovoi vystavki v Chicago (1893)
"Silk mantles, shawls, necker-chiefs, handkerchiefs, scarfs, ,,bashlyk's" (Caucasian
hoods), gloves, belts etc. 3. ..."
5. Forests and Forestry in Poland, Lithuania, the Ukraine, and the Baltic by John Croumbie Brown (1885)
"As the sun was shining brightly, and the distance to be traversed was short, I
considered that a light fur and a bashlyk—a cloth hood which protects the ..."
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