"Burnouse" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... obliged to prove, before the three women would be satisfied, that she understood how each garment ought to be arranged; and later she had to try on a new gandourah, with a white burnouse such as women wear, and the haick she had worn in coming to the house. Hsina would help her in the morning, she was told, but it would be better that she should know how to do things properly for herself, ...
— The Golden Silence • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson |
