yashmak

[n]ow in the purlieus of Constantinople a great deal of the Gorgeous East still runs warm; a vine was laced across the road, a various torrent of red fezes, turbans, yashmaks, European respectability came pouring down it, like a turbulent Highland water.

The young harem musician performs for what also seem to be recently arrived guests, as these women wear yashmaks, and at least one wears a feredge.

The place names brought vivid images of hot colours and hot sunshine, the smell of spices and sandalwood on the breeze; women in yashmaks or saris wearing jewelled slippers - in my imagination I visited them all.

Give him a fortune to spend and ensure all women at the club wear yashmaks for their own safety.

But then: Want fries with that dress?:No one expects pregnant women to wear yashmaks, but there are limits to the 'if you've got it, flaunt it' attitude.

Some might place caps on the heads of their dummies or even dress them in yashmaks and veils.

It takes Carol Moldaw until page seven of The Lightning Field to use the pronoun "I." From the very beginning her "Studies in Pen and Ink" offer vivid imagery, a wide and quirky range of reference (Krishna, Croatia, crumpled paper and bed sheets, corn snakes, and yashmaks [veils used by Muslim women to cover the face]), and an interesting tension between disciplined description and disturbing imagery.