They were so handsome, that they could not keep up their yashmaks. ❋ Unknown (2003)
I saw yashmaks, jellabas, and severe old gentlemen wearing yarmulkes. ❋ Pawson, Stuart (1999)
We imagined you galloping about Constantinople on camels, your yashmaks rippling seductively in the breeze. ' ❋ Durrell, Gerald, 1925- (1956)
Squalid women in blue yashmaks loll on the crazy verandah, whence a native secretary marshals us through the dusty and ruinous building. ❋ Emily Richings (N/A)
The women, in rainbow garb, use their floating _slandangs_ as improvised _yashmaks_, holding the red and yellow folds before their faces in approved Moslem fashion, when passing a man. ❋ Emily Richings (N/A)
The appearance of a servant in the hall with her arms full of yashmaks and ferrajas and several pairs of pattens apprised me that I was too late to see their street-dresses. ❋ Various (N/A)
They have fine eyes, but the yashmaks are thicker, and you feel there is less beauty hidden under them. ❋ Various (N/A)
They will offer confectionary, mahalabé, and remove their yashmaks, as several did to-day; but not one of the fair wearers could vie in personal beauty with some of the Greeks who surrounded them. ❋ John Auldjo (N/A)
The other women dread the ordeal as much, or almost as much, as the hostess, but they know that no glance of theirs can influence the situation; so up they all go, wearing their invisible yashmaks with a bad grace. ❋ Unknown (1938)
Three silken ladies wearing gauzy white _yashmaks_ confronted Cairn and the speaker. ❋ Sax Rohmer (1921)
Constantinople, all the ladies of the various harems should suddenly appear abroad without their yashmaks, setting fire to the hearts and turning the heads of the unaccustomed male. ❋ Richard Le Gallienne (1906)
Mohammedan women are merely overgrown children, and the promise of strict decorousness is forgotten or ignored the moment the tomasha begins; and the fun and the wickedness of removing their yashmaks in the presence of a Ferenghi is too rare an opportunity to be missed, and, no doubt, furnishes them with material for amusing conversation for many a day after. ❋ Thomas Stevens (1894)
Upon their heads they wore caps, such as in the jargon of fashion are called toques, and their faces were enveloped in yashmaks, white veils which cross the forehead above the eyes and are brought back just below them, so as to cover the rest of the face. ❋ Unknown (1881)
Their _yashmaks_ obscured all but their eyes, which could be seen to open wide in wonder at the extraordinary behaviour of the red-faced giaour. ❋ Bracebridge Hemyng (1871)
Will she send them travelling on camels, veiled by _yashmaks? ❋ Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1867)
He sees them all: the Levantine with the weak and cunning face, the swarthy Kurdish porter, the gorgeously arrayed Dalmatian embassy servant, the huge, fair Turkish waterman in his spotless white dress, and the countless veiled Turkish women from the small harems of the little town, shuffling along in silence, or squatted peacefully upon a jutting point of the pier, veiled in _yashmaks_, the more transparent as they have the more beauty to show or the less ugliness to conceal. ❋ Unknown (1881)
