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His cherchia of jade-green silk was bound with a ukal, or fillet of camel's-hair; his burnous, also silk, showed tenderest shades of lavender and rose. Under its open folds could be seen a violet jacket with buttons of filigree ivory. He had handed his gun to the man behind him, and now was unarmed save for a gadaymi, or semicircular knife, thrust into his silk sash of crimson, with frayed edges.
We have been to the perfumer" he leaned confidentially towards her, exhaling a pungent odour of amber "to the tailor, to the baboosh bazaar!" he kicked out a foot cased in a slipper that was bright almost as a gold piece "to him who sells the cherchia." He shook his head till the spangled muslin that flowed about it trembled. "Is it not right that your servants should do you honour in the city?"
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