Haik

Besides the haik, which is like that of a man's, a lady wears a linen cloth over her face, to conceal it from the profane vulgar when abroad. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

They were wearing blue turbans above the flowing white "haik" which fell back upon their shoulders, and the white burnous which reached to their ankles. ❋ Philip Gibbs (1919)

As a means of protest, Algerian women who had previously shed the haik -- the Algerian equivalent of the burqa -- took it up again as an affront to French colonizers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Kenneth, “to debate thine hest;” and swallowed the narcotic, mingled as it was with some water from the spring, then wrapped him in the haik, or Arab cloak, which had been fastened to his saddle-pommel, and, according to the directions of the physician, stretched himself at ease in the shade to await the promised repose. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It is a foul slope; now slippery with viscous mud, then powdery with fetid dust, dotted with graves and decaying tombs, unclean booths, gargottes and tattered tents, and frequented by women, mere bundles of unclean rags, and by men wearing the haik or burnús, a Franciscan frock, tending their squatting camels and chaffering over cattle for Gibraltar beef-eaters. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The haik or barracan is exported in great numbers to the Levant by the pilgrims. ❋ Unknown (2003)

That she was slave, the essence and perfection of the female, was what made her such an extraordinary, special, incomparable object of desire, and that would be so whether she were kneeling in a ta-teera, clad in an evening gown or concealed from head to toe in the dark haik of the Tahira, peeping out through a tiny screen of black lace. ❋ Norman, John, 1931- (1988)

That she was slave, the essence and perfection of the female, was what made her such an extraordinary, special, incomparable object of desire, and that would be so whether she were kneeling in a ta-terra, clad in an evening gown or concealed from head to toe in the dark haik of the Tahira, peeping out through a tiny screen of black lace. ❋ Norman, John, 1931- (1988)

R. helped Tahara wind her long white woollen haik round her. ❋ Isabel Savory (N/A)

The poor would go out a locusting, as they termed it: the bushes were covered; they took their (_haik_) garment, and threw it over them, and then collected them in a sack. ❋ Abd Salam Shabeeny (N/A)

Nor have the Riffis, in common with the Moors, reached the point of discarding "petticoats and drapery" -- that is to say, they wear the brown, hooded, woollen jellab, and the white woollen haik -- a sheet of material without seam, which they cast round themselves something like a Roman toga. ❋ Isabel Savory (N/A)

These women seldom go out of doors, or, if they do, nothing is to be seen of them except a figure in an immense creamy woollen haik from top to toe, heavily veiled: possibly a pair of haunting eyes and beautiful slippers suggest an attractive "beyond." ❋ Isabel Savory (N/A)

As soon as he saw the Arab in the room, his eyes, which were small and green, kindled as with fire; he erected himself in a second, his head two feet high; and darting on the defenseless Arab, seized him between the folds of his haik, just above his right hipbone, hissing most horribly; the Arab gave a horrid shriek, when another serpent came out of the cage. ❋ Abd Salam Shabeeny (N/A)

The narrow streets were nearly pitch dark; shadowy figures passed us at first; and Tahara drew her haik all over her face, leaving only a slit for the eyes, and put on her slippers once more. ❋ Isabel Savory (N/A)

The M'zabites preserve the pure Arab dress -- the haik, or small bornouse without hood, the broad breeches coming to the knee, the bare legs, and the turban rolled up into a coil of ropes. ❋ Various (N/A)

It was a sight to see the countrywomen wading through, one after another like a string of ducks, trying to keep dry: the water came just about up to their bodies, and the white haik and piece of towelling for a skirt could be bundled up somehow -- a very few wore short white cotton drawers. ❋ Isabel Savory (N/A)

The white haik, or toga, is fastened around the temples. ❋ Various (N/A)

As for the Kabyle of more vulgar position, take away his haik and his bornouse, trim the points of his beard, and we have a perfect German head. ❋ Various (N/A)

Ugliness there may be, enough and to spare, inside these white cities -- it oozes out sometimes; but as far as possible let a haik and a blank wall enshroud it all in mystery. ❋ Isabel Savory (N/A)

She bound round her head an orange-coloured silk handkerchief; wore, except when at work, an embroidered yellow waistcoat, a pale blue kaftan down to her ankles, a sprigged, white muslin, loose garment, all over that; and a creamy woollen haik, when she went out or was cold, covered everything. ❋ Isabel Savory (N/A)

[OMG] that [boys a] such a [Haik] ❋ 2good5u (2018)

[Ohhh] [look it]’s Haik I wanna [bang] him soooo bad ❋ Sirun_Tgha (2019)

Hey Haik [do you] [wanna play] [basketball]? ❋ Armenian818181818181 (2018)

I haike you. ❋ FoxyMan15 (2017)

An Haik is [cool] ❋ Haik346 (2019)