Note 298 — KHALIF THE FISHERMAN OF BAGHDAD.
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
In text “Kimkhá,” which Dozy also gives Kumkh = chenille, tissu de soie veloutee: Damasquète de soie or et argent de Venise, du Levant, à fleurs, etc. It comes from Kamkháb or Kimkháb, a cloth of gold, the well-known Indian “Kimcob.”