Lexicographical Neighbors of Bashliks
Literary usage of Bashliks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1890)
"... with their scythes over their shoulders, clad in particoloured shirts, and
head-pieces made up of bashliks of every colour, tied in all possible forms. ..."
2. Central Asia and Tibet by Sven Anders Hedin (1903)
"bashliks (hoods) were no use whatever. The hail and snow met us horizontally,
stuck fast inside the collars of our overcoats, and, melting, ..."
3. An Account of Palmyra and Zenobia: With Travels and Adventures in Bashan and by William Wright (1895)
"... and though we were in the midst of Arabs, no one would tell us where the path
was without first receiving two bashliks — over two francs. ..."
4. With the Conquered Turk by Lionel James (1913)
"The town was absolutely packed with Turkish soldiers muffled up to the eyes in
their overcoats and bashliks. They looked the picture of misery, ..."
5. John Bellows: Letters and Memoir by John Bellows (1904)
"... the sharp- peaked bashliks (head-dresses) giving it a strangely weird and
goblin look. ' The struggling moonbeam's misty light' shone through the storm, ..."
6. A Tramp's Sketches by Stephen Graham (1913)
"... or mud-coloured bashliks. The trousers of the Christians all very tight, the
trousers of the Mahometans baggy, rainbow-coloured—it is a jealous point of ..."
7. Adventures in Tibet by Sven Anders Hedin (1904)
"On the way up we were met by a terrific hail-storm beating directly in our faces,
so that our bashliks afforded us very ..."
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