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- noun Plural form of
bornous .
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Examples
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They are dressed in red, with a covering of two bornouses -- a white one beneath, and a black one fastened over.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various
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The surrounding folk dress for market, instead of dressing for Sunday, and exhibit the whitest of bornouses above the dustiest of legs as they sit crooning over trays of eggs or onions, brought far on foot through the powdery roads.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various
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The street is unpaved, the horse is unshod, the hoofs cannot be heard, and you have hardly time to efface yourself against a wall when a cavalier passes by like a careless torrent, scattering the white bornouses centrifugally from his pathway as he advances.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 Various
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They make bornouses which sell all over Algeria, Morocco,
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The jewelry and the tissues, the bornouses and haiks, the blacksmith-work and ammunition, which fill the markets of Morocco, Tunis and the countries toward the desert, are scattered from off these crags, which Nature has forbidden to man by her very strongest prohibitions.
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Menacing their host and his companions like an army, they gallop up, their bornouses flying and their weapons flashing, until at a few paces they discharge their long guns under the bodies of the horses opposite, and take flight like a covey of birds.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 Various
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– Bearded Arabs with delicate features and grave, sad eyes, who fold their white bornouses about them with a wonderful effect of dignity; and more jovial and half-naked negroes of every tint and race – from Zanzibar, the Soudan, Abyssinia.
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Raw silk and brocades; beads, glass and composition; small, looking-glasses; wooden bracelets, fantastically painted; sword-blades; needles [84]; paper [85]; razors; some spices, cloves, &c.; attar of roses; carpet-rugs; "Indians," or coarse white cottons; bornouses and barracans, &c., &c.
Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828
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