burnoose
Americannoun
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a hooded mantle or cloak, as that worn by Arabs.
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a similar garment worn by women at various periods in Europe and the United States.
Other Word Forms
- burnoosed adjective
- burnoused adjective
Etymology
Origin of burnoose
1685–95; < French burnous < dialectal Arabic burnūs < Greek bírros < Late Latin birrus birrus
Example Sentences
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Savaris and Spahis wearing the bright colored burnoose curbed their desert steeds upon the cobblestones of Rome.
From Time Magazine Archive
"The flick of a burnoose, the beating of a donkey may mean something�who knows?"
From Time Magazine Archive
Thereupon, his patience unexhausted, he gathered up his burnoose, and with appropriate words, since the mountain would not come to him, he went to the mountain.
From Time Magazine Archive
M. Steeg disported a flowing burnoose, under which he wore a gaudy pair of red breeches and a pullover sweater.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her neck rose from the white burnoose in a curve of the palest amber; her delicate lips were parted; her loosened tresses were filled with the feeble sunshine.
From Sacrifice by Whitman, Stephen French
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