| Thomas Smith - Astronomy - 1806 - 172 pages
...sleeves, an outer garment of cloth, black or yellow buskins of leather, and a flat yellow bonnet. — The dress of the women differs but little from that of the other sex, excepting their exterior garment, which is made without sleeves. The hair of the females... | |
| Arminianism - 1819 - 996 pages
...cloak, ami over the clothes, sometimes a frock siade of entrails, the better to keep them warm and dry. The dress of the women differs but little from that of the men, enly that the rlwik has a longer hood, and in summer shorter sleeves, is not cut short off, but has... | |
| Sir Richard Phillips - Geography - 1838 - 480 pages
...feet, over which are drawn buskins of leather, generally black or yellow. Shirts are ивknown ; and the dress of the women differs but little from that of the men, except for the outer garment they wear a gown without sleeves. The hair of the females is long, and... | |
| 1840 - 544 pages
...formed from the account, given a few pages back, of M. von Wrangel's travelling accoutrements. Except on state occasions, the dress of the women differs...the head gear. " To form a just conception of life en the banks of the Kolyma," says M. von Wrangel, "one must havo spent some time with the inhabitants.... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1840 - 514 pages
...the account, given a few pages back, of M. Von Wrangel's travelling accoutrements. Except on slate occasions, the dress of the women differs but little from that of tile men, unless in the arrangement of the head gear. "To form a just conception of life on the banks... | |
| Anna Maria Hall - 818 pages
...of dress is generally made of the skin of the sturgeon. The skin of the bear is used for mourning. The dress of the women differs but little from that of the men, except 264 in the ornaments which their vanity or the desire to please leads them to add to it, their... | |
| 1850 - 496 pages
...waist by a shawl or sash. Over this tunic, the richer class wear a loose cloak lined with fur or silk. The dress of the women differs but little from that of the men ; and at a little distance, or in the dusk, it is difficult to distinguish the sexes. The moiety of... | |
| Sir George Ferguson Bowen - Greece - 1852 - 276 pages
...waist by a shawl or sash. Over this tunic the richer class wear a loose cloak lined with fur or silk. The dress of the women differs but little from that of the men ; and at a little distance, or in the dusk, it is difficult to distinguish the sexes. The moiety of... | |
| John Murray (Firm) - Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey) - 1854 - 492 pages
...fez, or turban, and of aj tunic reaching to the ankles, and bound at the waist by a shawl or sash. The dress of the women differs but little from that of the men. A few Frank i merchants are settled at Salonica, be- ; sides the consular body. There is a pasha, a... | |
| Sir Richard Francis Burton - Arabian Peninsula - 1856 - 514 pages
...so violently as to break through any guard, and with it they always decide their trivial quarrels. The dress of the women differs but little from that of the Egyptians, except in the face veil, which is generally white. There is an independent bearing about... | |
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