Note 414 — ALI NUR AL-DIN AND MIRIAM THE GIRDLE-GIRL.[376]

Arab. “Akmám,” pl. of Kumm, a sleeve, a petal. See vol. iv. 107 and supra p. 267. The Moslem woman will show any part of her person rather than her face, instinctively knowing that the latter may be recognised whereas the former cannot. The traveller in the outer East will see ludicrous situations in which the modest one runs away with hind parts bare and head and face carefully covered.