Burnous: Definition and part of speech

Burnous

  1. n. A combination cloak and hood worn by women.
  2. n. A cloaklike garment and hood woven in one piece, worn by Arabs.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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