jubbeh

The Khalifeh laughed, and said to him, How can I suffer this jubbeh to remain upon me?

Nights 32-36. The Story of Nur-Ed-din and Enis-El-Jelis. 1909

The Khalifeh then put on himself the fisherman’s jubbeh and turban, and, having drawn a litham7 over his face, said to the fisherman, Go about thy business; —and he kissed the feet of the Khalifeh, and thanked him, reciting these two verses: —Thou hast granted me favours beyond my power to acknowledge, and completely satisfied all my wants.

Nights 32-36. The Story of Nur-Ed-din and Enis-El-Jelis. 1909

So he said to him, It hath occurred to my mind, O Prince of the Faithful, that thou desirest to learn the art of fishing, in order that thou mayest be master of a trade that may profit thee; and if such be thy desire, this jubbeh is suitable to thee.

Nights 32-36. The Story of Nur-Ed-din and Enis-El-Jelis. 1909

Wearing the patched jubbeh of the Dervishes over his stained skin, his hair frizzed on the crown of his head and falling upon the nape of his neck in locks matted and gummed into the semblance of seaweed, he went about his search for Yusef through the wide streets of New Berber with its gaping pits.

The Four Feathers 1906

He was clad in a jubbeh5 in which were a hundred patches of coarse woollen stuff, containing vermin of the most abominable kind, and among them fleas in such numbers that he might almost have been transported by their means over the face of the earth; and he took from his head a turban which for three years he had never unwound; but when he happened to find a piece of rag he twisted it around it: and when he had taken off the jubbeh and the turban, the Khalifeh pulled off from his own person two vests of silk of Alexandria and Ba’lbekk, and a melwatah6 and a farajiyeh, and said to the fisherman, Take these, and put them on.

Nights 32-36. The Story of Nur-Ed-din and Enis-El-Jelis. 1909