many-robed

Updated: May 19, 2025

From the many-robed Pacha, with his amber-mouthed and jewelled chibouque, longer than a lancer's spear, to the Arab clothed only in a blue rag, and puffing through a short piece of hollowed date-wood, there is, from Stamboul to Grand Cairo, only one source of physical solace.

Various - The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction : Volume 20, No. 566, September 15, 1832