tarbooshes

He went to the Pyramids and Syria, and there left his malady behind him, and returned with a fine beard, and a supply of tarbooshes and nargillies, with which he regales all his friends.

The History of Pendennis 2006

It was easy to imagine, amid the graceful arches and the traditional Jerusalem stone, an era when Jerusalem's law-enforcement officers wore tarbooshes and pressed blue tunics with Sam Browne belts rather than the bland polyester uniforms and blue baseball-style caps of today.

The Logic of Suicide Terrorism 2003

It was easy to imagine, amid the graceful arches and the traditional Jerusalem stone, an era when Jerusalem's law-enforcement officers wore tarbooshes and pressed blue tunics with Sam Browne belts rather than the bland polyester uniforms and blue baseball-style caps of today.

The Logic of Suicide Terrorism 2003

The soldiers were mustered in new tarbooshes, and the long white shirts of the Mrima and the Island.

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

We passed huge black hulks of mouldering men-of-war, from the sterns of which trailed the dirty red flag, with the star and crescent; boats, manned with red-capped seamen, and captains and steersmen in beards and tarbooshes, passed continually among these old hulks, the rowers bending to their oars, so that at each stroke they disappeared bodily in the boat.

Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo 2004

Others entered and did their gymnastics, until the room contained the whole Cabinet, all portly persons in tarbooshes, the afore-mentioned Sudan gentleman, and a few

The Tale of a Trooper 1930

On it moved a kaleidoscopic gallery of tarbooshes, red tabs and top hats.

The Tale of a Trooper 1930

One morning the tramp docked at Alexandria, and from the deck he looked at the city, white in the sunlight, and the crowd on the wharf; he saw the natives in their shabby gabardines, the blacks from the Soudan, the noisy throng of Greeks and Italians, the grave Turks in tarbooshes, the sunshine and the blue sky; and something happened to him.

Moon and Sixpence 1919

On one occasion the Commander-in-Chief was escorted by a number of frock-coated gentlemen, wearing tarbooshes, who constituted some of the "notables" of Egypt and had been invited to witness a display by the Air Service of the Army.

The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula Herbert Brayley Collett 1912

Where there had been an eddying current of turbans and _tarbooshes_, bespeaking all the tribes and styles which foregather at the meeting place of two Continents and two seas, there were now only the belated few.

The Lighted Match Charles Neville Buck 1904