bornouse

An institution of great protective use, in practice, is the safe-conduct, or _anaya_, a token given to a guest, traveler or prescript, and which protects the bearer as far as the acquaintance of the giver extends: it may be a gun, a stick, a bornouse or a letter.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various

The M'zabites preserve the pure Arab dress -- the haik, or small bornouse without hood, the broad breeches coming to the knee, the bare legs, and the turban rolled up into a coil of ropes.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 Various

These are never changed among the poor working-people, for the scars of a bornouse are as dignified as those of the body, and are confided with the garment by a father to his son.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 Various

The _anaya_ never fails, and we are received with cordiality, mixed with stateliness, by an imposing old man in a white bornouse.

Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 Various

As for the Kabyle of more vulgar position, take away his haik and his bornouse, trim the points of his beard, and we have a perfect German head.

Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 Various

Feel glad I took the advice of the Governor of Ghadames, and purchased a quantity of warm woollen clothing, heik, bornouse, and jibbah.

Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828

After they have drank it some time, they have no evacuations for four or five days, and these are as white as my bornouse.

Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828

Touaricks, leaving a portion of my slight woollen bornouse caught by the hilt of his dagger.

Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828

Leila and of his marabout father; his pilgrimage when eight years old to Mecca, and his education in Italy; his visions among the tombs, and the crown of magic light which was seen on his brows when he began to taste the enchanted apple; then, with adolescence, the burning sense of infidel tyranny that made his home at Mascara seem only a cage, barred upon him by the unclean Franks; and soon, while still a youth, his amazing election as emir of Mascara and sultan of Oran, at a moment when the prophet-chief had just four _oukias_ (half-dimes) tied into the corner of his bornouse!

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 Various

"Here in Algiers, do we not see, every Friday, the Mussulman Arab, wandering pensively through his cemetery, placing on some venerated and beloved grave bouquets of flowers, branches of boxwood; wrapped in his bornouse, he sits for hours beside it, motionless and thoughtful; lost in gentle melancholy, it would seem as though he were holding intimate and mysterious converse with the dear departed one whose loss he deplores ....

Purgatory Mrs. James Sadlier 1861