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‖ burnous, burnouse|bɜːˈnuːs, -ˈnuːz|
Also 7 bernou, -noo, -nooe, 9 ber-, bornouse, boornoos, bournous, burnoos(e.
[a. F. burnous, a. Arab. burnus. On account of the final -s, the word has often been treated in Eng. as a plural.]
1. A mantle or cloak with a hood, an upper garment extensively worn by Arabs and Moors.
1695Motteux St. Olon's Morocco 81 The black Caps and Bernous they are oblig'd to wear. Ibid. 91 A Bernooe, or kind of Stuff or Cloath Cloak, edg'd with a Fringe, whence there hangs a kind of a Cowle behind with a Tuft at the end on't. Ibid. 92 The Alcaydes..have a Bernoo of Scarlet, or black Cloth, without a Cowle. Ibid. 93 The King's Blacks are seldom seen to wear Bernoos. 1811Ann. Reg. 568/1 A cloak, or Bernouse as it is called. 1832Lander Exped. Niger II. xiv. 277 Dressed in a full bornouse, or Arab cloak. 1841Marryat Poacher (Rtldg.) 279 Their white bournous..waving in the wind. 1863Kinglake Crimea I. 289 The burnous..is his [the Arab's] garment by day and by night. 1875J. Bennet Winter Medit. i. ix. 263 The inhabitants of Algiers..wear..thick woollen bournous with hoods.
2. A kind of cloak or mantle worn by women, resembling the Arabian garment.
1859Sala Tw. round Clock 111 The Burnouse cloaks, and the Llama shawls. 1863― Capt. Dang. III. viii. 254 The folds of her White Burnouse. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. I. xi. 219, I want to put on my burnous. |