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Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 5 (of 6)

Note 361 — THE GOOD WIFE OF CAIRO AND HER FOUR GALLANTS.[354]

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

In text “Turtúr” = the Badawi’s bonnet: vol. ii. 143. Mr. Doughty (i. 160) found at Al-Khuraybah the figure of an ancient Arab wearing a close tunic to the knee and bearing on poll a coif. At Al-’Ula he was shown an ancient image of a man’s head cut in sandstone: upon the crown was a low pointed bonnet. “Long caps” are also noticed in i. 562; and we are told that they were “worn in outlandish guise in Arabia.”

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