veneeses

Updated: May 8, 2025

The great men, and indeed all those that can afford it, despise the simple Kailouee costume, and indulge in all the rich dresses which are so much liked by the Moors of the coast, burnouses, shasheeahs, turbans, veneeses, caftans, tobes of silk, &c. The dress of the women whom we see about is a simple cotton tobe, covering them from neck to heels.

James Richardson - Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 1: Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government