nubias

Many woolen goods, such as light-colored, heavy sacques, nubias, etc., may be washed in cold suds and rinsed in cold water.

The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources Anonymous

The good women knit hose for me, the young ladies supplied me with yarn gloves and nubias, the merchants furnished me with clothes, even shoes were presented to me.

The story of my life, or, More than a half century as I have lived it and seen it lived, 1912

He had reached the end of the walk and had already caught the glow of the overhead lantern in the hall of the Horn mansion lighting up the varied costumes of the guests as Malachi swung back the front door, revealing the girls in their pink and white nubias, the gallants in long cloaks with scarlet linings, the older men in mufflers, and the mothers and grandmothers in silk hoods.

Kennedy Square Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876

Now and then the door would open and a bevy of muffled figures -- the men in cloaks, the girls in nubias wound about their heads and shoulders -- would pass out.

Kennedy Square Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876