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Definition of Tarbooshes
1. tarboosh [n] - See also: tarboosh
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tarbooshes
Literary usage of Tarbooshes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Irene the Missionary by John William De Forest (1879)
"So a considerable number of yellow slippers and crimson tarbooshes was purchased.
Then the party went to a shop kept by an Italian, and laid in a store of ..."
2. Egypt and the English, Showing British Public Opinion in Egypt Upon the by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen (1908)
"... while other natives were standing like statues about the platform. All the
tarbooshes (ie, Egyptians) in the train seemed to know all the ..."
3. Egypt and Nubia by James Augustus St. John (1845)
"A finer sort of tarbooshes is likewise turned out here for the Cairo market, ...
They formerly produced, for Constantinople, tarbooshes higher in the crown, ..."
4. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1898)
"... boats, manned with red-capped seamen, and captains and steersmen in beards
and tarbooshes, passed continually among these old hulks, the rowers bending ..."
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