Lexicographical Neighbors of Tarboush
Literary usage of Tarboush
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bible Witnesses from Bible Lands: Verified in the Researches of the by Robert Morris (1874)
"I gave five francs (fl) for the tarboush, and two francs more for the silk ...
The tarboush is made of felt. It is thick and heavy, and lasts a great while. ..."
2. Modern Egypt by Evelyn Baring Cromer (1908)
"... an African sun rather than substitute a Christian helmet for the tarboush,
which is the distinctive mark of the Moslem soldier in the Ottoman dominions. ..."
3. Modern Egypt by Evelyn Baring Cromer (1908)
"... an African sun rather than substitute a Christian helmet for the tarboush,
which is the distinctive mark of the Moslem soldier in the Ottoman dominions. ..."
4. The Ansayrii, and the Assassins, with travels in the Further east, in 1850 by Frederick Walpole (1851)
"Few men of the western provinces wear turbans before their fortieth year ; a
handkerchief or scarf is wound round the universal tarboush. ..."
5. Youthful Explorers in Bible Lands: A Faithful Account of the Scenery, Ruins by Robert Morris (1870)
"His lips were livid pale, the nails of his skinny hands long as talons. His head
was closely shaven above the temples and covered with the tarboush, ..."
6. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1854)
"The head-dress is a red tarboush, or a white skullcap wrapped round with a muslin
turban. Indoors all superfluities are laid aside, and they appear with ..."
7. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1908)
"... and acknowledges his superior ability, can never forget the fact that the
Englishman wears a hat whilst he himself wears a tarboush or a turban. ..."
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