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Worn by Arabs and Moors
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burnoose
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Word definitions for burnoose in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A thick hooded cloak worn by Berbers and Arabs in Northwest Africa.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a long hooded cloak woven of wool in one piece; worn by Arabs and Moors [syn: burnous , burnouse ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Burnoose \Bur"noose\, Burnous \Bur"nous\, n. [Ar. burnus a kind of high-crowned cap: cf. F. bournous, burnous, Sp. al-bornoz, a sort of upper garment, with a hood attached.] A cloaklike garment and hood woven in one piece, worn by Arabs. A combination cloak ...
Usage examples of burnoose.
In the background a tall figure swathed totally in a hooded burnoose, his hands concealed in its sleeves, nodded.
It was a burnoose, a single leather water bag, and a small leather pouch on a sling.
He huddled under the burnoose shivering with fever, his flesh seared from those moments in the sun.
He pulled himself, under the rasping burnoose, through sand that scraped him raw toward the other side, and collapsed, unconscious.
The cool desert air crept under the fabric of the burnoose and roused him.
Then he would remove the burnoose, walk out into its deadly rays, and let it burn him to death.
He would do his walking at night and huddle under the burnoose in the daylight, his eyes wrapped with the remaining strip of cloth.
As he and Beth went higher, it grew too cold to travel by night, so Ian pulled up the hood of his burnoose and donned his spectacles and they traveled by day, with him ensconced upon his camel.
Ian pulled his pistol from the belt fastened around his burnoose and felled the lead rider.
His burnoose was splashed with blood, his hands covered in gore to the elbows, but only his shoulder and his groin shrieked and told him he was hurt.
He could feel her blood, warm against his flesh where the burnoose was torn away.
She stepped into him, brushing her breasts against the burnoose and his bare chest.
In the meantime he could wait, and scowling beneath the hood of his burnoose he strode away to his goatskin tent.
The under garments he had long since discarded, wearing beneath the burnoose only a loin cloth.
You-a worthless vagabond without a following-without even a burnoose to your back.