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  • noun an outer garment consisting of a large piece of white cloth; worn by men and women in northern Africa

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Examples

  • This little lecher was always groping his nurses and governesses, upside down, arsiversy, topsyturvy, harri bourriquet, with a Yacco haick, hyck gio! handling them very rudely in jumbling and tumbling them to keep them going; for he had already begun to exercise the tools, and put his codpiece in practice.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • This little lecher was always groping his nurses and governesses, upside down, arsiversy, topsyturvy, harri bourriquet, with a Yacco haick, hyck gio! handling them very rudely in jumbling and tumbling them to keep them going; for he had already begun to exercise the tools, and put his codpiece in practice.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Nearer, a woman's red _haick_ interposes, the single stain of bright colour breaking the indefinite brown and grey of the plain.

    Saint Augustin Louis Bertrand 1903

  • Just at that moment the black face of that worthy, rendered darker by the snow-white haick that surrounded it, appeared among the tangled bamboos.

    The Great White Queen A Tale of Treasure and Treason William Le Queux 1895

  • He wore an Arab haick upon his head bound with many yards of brown camel's hair, a long white garment, something like a burnouse, only embroidered at the edge with crimson thread and confined at the waist by

    The Great White Queen A Tale of Treasure and Treason William Le Queux 1895

  • In an instant I remembered that on account of the suffocating atmosphere I had unwrapped my haick from about my mouth, thus allowing my features to remain uncovered.

    The Great White Queen A Tale of Treasure and Treason William Le Queux 1895

  • The heavy folds of a Bedouin's haick, brushing the papers off the bench, broke the thread of his musings.

    Under Two Flags 1839-1908 Ouida 1873

  • When we got to the bottom of the ladder, as he threw the rays of the lantern round the place, they fell on the sleeping form of a young Arab, dressed in a turban, and his white haick folded gracefully round him.

    Salt Water The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • He was riding on a haick they ca'd Souple Sam, it belanged to the George at Dumfries; it was a blood-bay beast, very ill o 'the spavin; I hae seen the beast baith before and since.'

    Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801

  • He was riding on a haick they ca'd Souple Sam, it belanged to the George at Dumfries; it was a blood-bay beast, very ill o 'the spavin; I hae seen the beast baith before and since.'

    Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801

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