bournous

W. wore a heavy rat-colored brocade silk, studded with large silver stars…a bournous of black Honiton lace, scalloped, and embroidered in violent colors with a battle piece representing the taking of Holland by the Dutch…upon her bosom reposed a gorgeous bouquet of real sage brush, imported from Washoe…

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

W. wore a heavy rat-colored brocade silk, studded with large silver stars…a bournous of black Honiton lace, scalloped, and embroidered in violent colors with a battle piece representing the taking of Holland by the Dutch…upon her bosom reposed a gorgeous bouquet of real sage brush, imported from Washoe…

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

In the picturesque contrast of costume it presents, the gayest French uniforms possess no attractions compared with the white and flowing bournous, with even the sheepskin mantle of the poor Arab of the desert, the bright braided caftan of the Moor, the turban, and the fez.

Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester

To-day he had changed his grey bournous for a white one, and all his clothing was white, embroidered with silver.

The Golden Silence 1901

"The Arabs have arrived," he said, and drawing aside the curtain of his tent, he saw at least twenty coming through the blue dusk, white bournous, scimitars, and long-barrelled guns!

Sister Teresa 1892

The Arab smiled, and taking a live pigeon out of his bournous, he allowed it to flutter in the air for a moment, at the end of a string.

Sister Teresa 1892

Nothing else would have satisfied me; my father led the pony, and I have always thought this fantasy exceedingly characteristic; it must be so, for it awoke in me twenty years afterwards; and fanciful and absurd as it may appear, I certainly should have liked to have worn my travelling companion's bournous in the train if only for a few minutes.

Memoirs of My Dead Life 1892

It seemed to him that he could not get any wetter; but there is no end to the amount of moisture clothes can absorb, a bournous especially, and soon the rain was pouring down Owen's neck; but he would not be better off if he ordered the caravan to stop and his servants to pitch his tent under

Sister Teresa 1892

But though one can go on thinking year after year about a bournous, one cannot talk for more than two or three hours about one; and though I looked forward to spending at least a fortnight with my friends, and making excursions in the desert, finding summer, as

Memoirs of My Dead Life 1892

"Would you like to see my bournous?" he said, and opening his valise he showed me a splendid one which filled me with admiration, and only shame forbade me to ask him to allow me to try it on.

Memoirs of My Dead Life 1892