striking-light

Updated: May 4, 2025

There is generally attached to it a good-sized red leather bag, not unlike an European lady's work-bag, and this is made into various compartments, one for tobacco, one for snuff, one for trona or ghour nuts, another for striking-light matters, another for needles and thread, another containing a little looking-glass, &c., &c.; and I have seen a Touarghee fop adjust his toilette with as much coquetry as the most brilliant flirt, indeed, the vanity of some of these Targhee dandies surpasses all our notions of vanity in European dress.

James Richardson - Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846