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Definition of Burnoose
1. Noun. A long hooded cloak woven of wool in one piece; worn by Arabs and Moors.
Definition of Burnoose
1. n. A cloaklike garment and hood woven in one piece, worn by Arabs.
Definition of Burnoose
1. Noun. A thick hooded cloak worn throughout the Arab world and North Africa. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Burnoose
1. a hooded cloak [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Burnoose
Literary usage of Burnoose
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Military Dictionary and Gazetteer: Comprising Ancient and Modern Military by Thomas Wilhelm (1881)
"... burnoose, or Burnos. A kind of cloak or overcoat, used by the Arabs, and which
constitutes a part of the military ..."
2. A General Introduction to the Sacred Scriptures: In a Series of by Joseph Dixon (1853)
"As the Jews sometimes wore more than one upper garment, they may, in that case,
have resembled the Kabyles and Arabs in hyke and burnoose. ..."
3. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1884)
"... costume—a little silk vest and wide breeches. Poor people have only a jebba
and cotton drawers. The peasants have nothing but the burnoose, which forms ..."
4. Catalogue of Paintings by Bryson Burroughs (1917)
"Horsemen are going Gallery through a rocky region toward a walled city which 18-
appears at the left; the Arab in the foreground wears a white burnoose ..."
5. Antiquities of the Jews by William Brown, David Jennings (1823)
"The word is applied to Elijah's hairy garment,0 which seems to have been a burnoose
either lined with fur or formed of skin. And in Micah ii. ..."
6. The people's dictionary of the Bible [by J.R. Beard]. by John Relly Beard (1861)
"The burnoose, which answers to onr cloak, is often for warmth worn over these
... If we except the cape of the burnoose, which is used only occasionally, ..."
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