lunghi

Updated: May 24, 2025

Beside him rode the bearer of the blue standard, which marked his place in the battle. He pointed to it, and reined in his horse, then snatching the white lunghi from his head, stood up in his stirrups uncovered before his followers, and called upon them in the name of God and the Prophet to drive the cursed Kaffirs from the country of the faithful.

William Henry Giles Kingston - Our Soldiers: Gallant Deeds of the British Army during Victoria's Reign