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The architecture dates back to the days of pashas and tarbushes, when British officers sipped their gin and tonics beneath the jacarandas and surveyed the debutantes out from England trolling for husbands.
Different Strokes 2008
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In "Altneuland" (translated to Hebrew as "Tel Aviv"), the feverish tome composed by Theodore Herzl, Judaism's improbable visionary - Herzl refers to the Arabs as pliant and compliant butlers, replete with gloves and tarbushes.
Herzl's Butlers 2006
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Herzl's Butlers 2006
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The Egyptian servants, in their long white garments and high red tarbushes, the
There was a King in Egypt Norma Lorimer 1906
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Everyone feels compelled to tell a parent to put a hat on the baby in a country where we wear scarves, snoods, spodiks and streimels; wimples, fedoras, berets, tarbushes, homburgs, mods, kippot and keffiyot.
Elder of Ziyon 2010
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"Perhaps it was the bees 'thick, sleepy droning that made Miss Forbis feel as though she had previously visited this house in a dream, in which, though the mosaic dog had certainly figured, together with a negro who had opened doors, the rows of shoes along the wall, the little creature tripping at her side, the two dark, ultra-respectable men in black tarbushes and kaftans had had no place or part.
When Winter Comes to Main Street Grant Martin Overton 1908
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