yashmaks

They were so handsome, that they could not keep up their yashmaks.

Eothen 2003

I saw yashmaks, jellabas, and severe old gentlemen wearing yarmulkes.

Some by Fire Pawson, Stuart 1999

We imagined you galloping about Constantinople on camels, your yashmaks rippling seductively in the breeze. '

My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956

Squalid women in blue yashmaks loll on the crazy verandah, whence a native secretary marshals us through the dusty and ruinous building.

Through the Malay Archipelago Emily Richings

The women, in rainbow garb, use their floating _slandangs_ as improvised _yashmaks_, holding the red and yellow folds before their faces in approved Moslem fashion, when passing a man.

Through the Malay Archipelago Emily Richings

They will offer confectionary, mahalabé, and remove their yashmaks, as several did to-day; but not one of the fair wearers could vie in personal beauty with some of the Greeks who surrounded them.

Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833 John Auldjo

The appearance of a servant in the hall with her arms full of yashmaks and ferrajas and several pairs of pattens apprised me that I was too late to see their street-dresses.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 Various

They have fine eyes, but the yashmaks are thicker, and you feel there is less beauty hidden under them.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 Various

The other women dread the ordeal as much, or almost as much, as the hostess, but they know that no glance of theirs can influence the situation; so up they all go, wearing their invisible yashmaks with a bad grace.

Try Anything Twice 1938

Three silken ladies wearing gauzy white _yashmaks_ confronted Cairn and the speaker.

Brood of the Witch-Queen Sax Rohmer 1921