burnoose

[ ber-noos, bur-noos ]

noun

a hooded mantle or cloak, as that worn by Arabs.
a similar garment worn by women at various periods in Europe and the United States.

Origin of burnoose

1685–95; <French burnous<dialectal Arabic burnūs<Greek bírros<Late Latin birrusbirrus

The Maker of Sounds was garbed in an all-enveloping white burnous and a white skull cap.
Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays | Various
He put out his hand to detain her, for she had thrown on her cloak and was winding the burnous about her head.
Flamsted quarries | Mary E. Waller
The girl wrapped her in it, adjusted the burnous, that had fallen from her head, and went with her to the door.
Flamsted quarries | Mary E. Waller
He danced about the room, in his blue burnous and red tarbush, looking more like a howling dervish than a tempestuous Petticoat.
Ptomaine Street | Carolyn Wells
A Folly (to a highly respectable Bedouin in a burnous and gold spectacles).
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 102, April 23, 1892 | Various

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