crimson-turbaned

Updated: May 12, 2025

It was a charming Oriental sight, the grand, open- fronted room with its stone floor and many pillars, the superbly dressed directors and their blue-robed attendants, and the immense costumed crowd outside the gate in the sunshine, kept back by crimson-turbaned Sikh orderlies.

Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird - The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither