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Definition of Burnooses
1. burnoose [n] - See also: burnoose
Lexicographical Neighbors of Burnooses
Literary usage of Burnooses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Antiquities of the Jews by William Brown, David Jennings (1823)
"... sandals; travelling veils. cloaks or burnooses; perfume boxes; handkerchiefs;
hand-mirrors; large wardrobes in families; fashionable colours; remarks. ..."
2. Thomas George Earl of Northbrook, G.C.S.I.: A Memoir by Bernard (Sir) Mallet (1908)
"... Arabs in burnooses, like Carmelite friars' cloaks, fellahs, which is the people
of the place, in turbans and every kind of garb—Copts, Persians, ..."
3. France as it is by André Lebon, Paul Pelet (1888)
"The long white burnooses in which the native—whether Arab or Berber—majestically
wraps himself combines with the green of the landscape and the blue of an ..."
4. An Oriental Outing: Being a Narrative of a Cruise Along the Mediterranean by Edward Stansbury Wilson (1894)
"They sleep on a mat in the burnooses they wear, and live on beans and black bread.
They smoke cigarettes incessantly, and how they get enough wealth ahead ..."
5. An Oriental Outing: Being a Narrative of a Cruise Along the Mediterranean by Edward Stansbury Wilson (1894)
"They sleep on a mat in the burnooses they wear, and live on beans and black bread.
They smoke cigarettes incessantly, and how they get enough wealth ahead ..."
6. Narrative of a Campaign Against the Kabaïles of Algeria: With the Mission of by Dawson Borrer (1848)
"The dead were stripped of their burnooses, and searched for concealed ...
money did fall to the lot of one soldier ; and bloody burnooses were cheap again. ..."
7. The Sabbath School Visiter by Massachusetts Sabbath School Society (1833)
"Persons who are engaged in any active employment, usually throw off their burnooses
and hykes, and remain in their tunics. This is what is meant by laying ..."
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