husi

The institution was placed in charge of two members of the Society, a father and a brother. The collegians were clad in mantles of husi, which is a thin fabric like picote, inclining toward violet, with insignia of red braid extending to the feet.

- The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 13 of 55 : 1604-1605 : Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century

The first thing that the Lox-Raccoon does in this tale, on coming to life, is to upset a pot into the ashes for mischief's sake. "Then the Husi stag went bounding, Bounding to the land of Pohja, Till he reached the fields of Lapland. He upset the boiling kettle, So that all the meat went rolling, Rolling ruined in the ashes, And the soup upon the hearth-stone."

Charles Godfrey Leland - Algonquin Legends of New England

These are heaped with cigars, cigarettes, and diminutive buyos prepared by the delicate fingers of the maidens. The floor of the house shines like a mirror, curtains of piña and husi festoon the doorways, from the windows hang lanterns covered with glass or with paper, pink, blue, green, or red. The house itself is filled with plants and flower-pots on stands of Chinese porcelain.

José Rizal - The Social Cancer