over-cleanliness

Updated: August 25, 2026

The townsfolk and others who wished to be let alone, turned their jibbehs inside out, at once a renunciation of the Khalifa and his works as well as a sanitary gain. Some there were who, averse to over-cleanliness, simply tore the dervish patches off their dress, thus also resuming their fealty to the Khedive.

Bennet Burleigh - Khartoum Campaign, 1898: or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan