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Examples of burnoose
burnoose
Other tailored pieces in a red and cream wool stripe evoked the pattern of a burnoose.
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When he first dons the white burnoose of a princely Bedouin, he takes an almost womanish delight in his new finery.
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One sequence portrays a U.S. oil executive mugging an American consumer, while disguised in a flowing Arab burnoose.
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Sean says he never played a Saudi Arabian ambassador before and he's worried about how he'll look in a burnoose.
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At the opening ceremonies, that lovely Olympic parade, dress may be formal or informal, and even ceremonial, beret to burnoose.
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With his skin like a mandarin orange dipped in sand, his voice intimate and cryptic, his haunted eyes staring from inside his burnoose, O'Toole creates a towering, tragic, high-camp sheik of Araby.
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- Burnous: a long hooded cloak woven of wool in one piece; worn by Arabs and Moors
- A burnous (also spelled burnoose, or bournous; from the Berber and Maghribi Arab. burnus) is a long cloak of coarse woollen fabric with a hood, usually white in color, worn by Berbers and the Arabs throughout North Africa.
- A thick hooded cloak worn throughout the Arab world and North Africa
