hennah

Updated: May 5, 2025

Others were fresh and cheerful, and such as had claims to negro beauty were adorned, after their doubtful fashion, or the fancy of their masters, with love-charms of silver worn about their necks, with their fingers pricked out with hennah, and their eyelids darkened with kohl.

Sir Hall Caine - The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable