yashmak

• Mrs. Pole gave up the unsatisfactory notion of hitching her veil over her ears like an inverted yashmak, an expedient which both blinded and embarrassed her, and pushed it up over her hat, revealing a round determined face and red-rimmed blue eyes. —  Dancers in Mourning - Margery Allingham - Campion 09 -1937
• Their faces are veiled with something like the yashmak of Egypt, but it is of plain blue calico, a little embroidered Makalla is ruled over by a sultan of the Al Kaiti family, whose connection with India has made them very English in their sympathies, and his majesty's general appearance, with his velvet coat and jewelled daggers, is far more Indian than Arabian. —  Southern Arabia
• His face was very grave, for there was a look in the bright eyes of the girl in the yashmak which, professionally, he did not like. —  Brood of the Witch-Queen
• In all her photographs Zara el-Khala appeared veiled, in the Eastern manner; that is to say, she wore a white silk yashmak which concealed all her face except her magnificent eyes! —  The Golden Scorpion
• Her dress was the same in which she had been brought among us, without addition of yashmak or veil of any kind,--excepting the mistiness of the moonlight,--to conceal her face, though there was a shy drawing down of the tasselled cap or turban she wore, that shadowed it somewhat I need hardly say how soon the glories of earth, sea, and sky, which we had been contemplating, shrank into mere accessories around that one central figure, as she stood gazing upon them through the shrouds and spars from our deck. —  Stories of Mystery

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