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Veil worn by Muslim women
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yashmak
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A yashmak , yashmac or yasmak (from Turkish yaşmak , "a veil") is a Turkish type of veil or niqab worn by some Muslim women to cover their faces in public. Today there is almost no usage of this Islamic garment in Turkey.
Usage examples of yashmak.
A white yashmak, violet in the night, covers her face, leaving free only her large dark eyes and raven hair.
Oriental ladies are at home to but one man in all the world, and that your acquaintance with them must be modified by a mushrabieh screen, a yashmak, a shaded, fast-driving brougham, and a hideous eunuch.
A youngish woman raised her yashmak and spat a fair gob among chicken-innards.
Douglas Stone took it down, and picking his way among the lumber, walked over to a couch in the corner, on which lay a woman dressed in the Turkish fashion, with yashmak and veil.
Despite the gloom of the place and the yashmak which she wore, it was manifest that she was good to look upon.
Young men gathered around cafe tables, those who could afford it sitting with a coffee, the others at their elbows chatting and trying to catch a glimpse of the local girls, decorously swathed in chador and yashmak, who walked accompanied by their parents, but all the time signaling with their gait and the movement of their heads and hands.
The last, an old lady, lowered her paper until it masked the bottom part of her face like a yashmak, and glared at him unwinkingly over the top.
He was aware that the old lady with the journalistic yashmak had boldly advanced to the plate-glass partition, and that three of the other occupants of the lounge were making hurriedly for the hall.
A couple of laughing male friends, both of a Mediterranean complexion, were preparing to engage houris -- whose giggles agitated their yashmaks -- on adjacent beds.
There were girls, giggling, yashmaks up like beavers, drinking the local bottled beer with real Moorish men.
Biblical women with ancient hard eyes and no yashmaks carried hashish-dreaming fowls in upside-down bundles, scaly legs faggoted together.
All the village women Waldo had seen had worn yashmaks or some other form of face covering or veil.
Madame Bellini had been keeping a lacy black woolen stole wound around her head and across her face like a yashmak.