burnous
noun/bɜːˈnuːs/
/bɜːrˈnuːs/
(North American English usually burnoose)
- a long loose item of outer clothing with a hood (= something that covers the head), worn by ArabsWord Originlate 16th cent.: French, from Arabic burnus, from Greek birros ‘cloak’.
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