henna-tinged

Updated: May 6, 2025

There is one woman in the room a member of the frail sisterhood, now turned faithful, nursing an elderly and peevish Lothario with a cup of sago-milk gruel, which opium-eaters consider such a delicacy: while the other customers sit in groups talking with the preternatural solemnity born of their favourite drug, and now and again passing a remark to the cheery-looking landlord with the white skull-cap and henna-tinged beard.

S. M. (Stephen Meredyth) Edwardes - By-Ways of Bombay