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- noun Plural form of
bournous .
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Examples
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They squat round the parade in double or treble rows, muffled up within their bournouses, in mute admiration.
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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.
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I can see their bournouses puffed out by the wind.
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There are plenty of Arabs, swarthy, high-cheeked-boned, keen-eyed fellows, in snowy bournouses, with hair and moustache of almost unnatural blackness.
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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
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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
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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
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How can I describe the swarming crowds of the bazaar, the constant, noiseless stir of all those bournouses [Footnote: Bournouses: cf.
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