burnoose

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He slipped his hand into the folds of his burnoose, and, taking out a slip of paper, laid it on the shelf by which we were standing.

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  • He tossed the folds of the burnoose up so that the dark brown folds of the burnoose--this one wasn't white--concealed most of his face. —  136 - The Pharaoh's Ghost
  • Each Doc Savage aid was already attired in a white burnoose, the one-piece hooded garment worn by Arabs as protection against sand and sun Renny, the little brown man named Menzala, and Princess Amen-Amen were also in the cabin of the plane. —  093 - The Awful Dynasty
  • He removed a small instrument that looked like a chisel from beneath his burnoose, started scraping at the limestone covering of the pyramid. —  093 - The Awful Dynasty
  • Miss Feng had rustled up a burnoose, djellaba, and antique polyester two-piece for me from somewhere, so that I looked most dashing, absolutely in character as a highly authentic Leisure Suit Larry of Arabia. —  Asimov'sSF,January2007
  • The burnoose was more flowing than the usual one, so as to conceal the fact that two long-bladed singas were in sheaths strapped to Pasha Bey's bony, naked upper arms He also carried two modern, silenced American sixshooters, one on either hip. —  008 - The Sargasso Ogre
 

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  1. French burnous, from Arabic burnus, from Greek birros, hooded cloak, from Late Latin birrus.
 

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/bərˈnus/
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