bournouses

They squat round the parade in double or treble rows, muffled up within their bournouses, in mute admiration.

Travels in Morocco 2003

They had just passed the borders of the forest, and the three friends could see some thirty mounted men clad in broad pantaloons and the floating bournouses.

Five Weeks in a Balloon 2003

I can see their bournouses puffed out by the wind.

Five Weeks in a Balloon 2003

There are plenty of Arabs, swarthy, high-cheeked-boned, keen-eyed fellows, in snowy bournouses, with hair and moustache of almost unnatural blackness.

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

In the rear followed the harem; but on such occasions the sheikh takes but three wives, who are mounted astride on trained horses, each led by a slave boy, their heads and figures completely enveloped in brown silk bournouses, with an attendant on either side.

Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

They were handsomely dressed in Soudan _tobes_ of different colours -- dark blue and striped with yellow and red; bournouses of coarse scarlet cloth, with large turbans of white or dark-coloured cotton.

Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

Barca Gana's people, who were on the other, wore their red scarves or bournouses over their steel jackets.

Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

How can I describe the swarming crowds of the bazaar, the constant, noiseless stir of all those bournouses [Footnote: Bournouses: cf.

Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools Emilie Kip Baker