Also -mack, -mac, yasmak, yachmak (erron. yakmak, yaknack). [Arab. yashmaq.] The double veil concealing the part of the face below the eyes, worn by Mohammedan women in public.
1844. Kinglake, Eöthen, iii. 47, note. The yashmak … is not a mere, semi-transparent veil, but rather a good substantial petticoat applied to the face.
1848. Thackeray, Van. Fair, xviii. We let their bodies go abroad liberally enough, with smiles and ringlets and pink bonnets to disguise them instead of veils and yakmaks.
1885. Times, 25 May, 10/4. A Turkish lady is shocked if a strange man sees her without a yashmak and a monstrous bundle of wraps.
1895. P. Hemingway, Out of Egypt, II. 267. I gave her [sc. an old Arab woman] a cigarette, and she consented to accept a light from me, raising her yashmak for a moment.
Hence Yashmaked a., wearing a yashmak.
1904. Oxenham, Weaver of Webs, xiii. The simple pleasure of exciting the envious admiration of their yashmaked and unemancipated sisters.
