Crossword-Solution: BURKA
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| BURKA | anagram | KABRU |
We have 15 clues for the answer “BURKA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Concealing Muslim dress | 1 answer |
| Garment worn by Muslim women | 1 answer |
| It covers more than a hijab | 1 answer |
| Loose garment with veiled eyeholes | 1 answer |
| Loose garment with veiled eyeholes (Var.) | 1 answer |
| Muslim woman's cover-up | 1 answer |
| Muslim woman's wear | 1 answer |
| Wearable symbol of piety | 1 answer |
| enveloping garment | 1 answer |
| full body cloak worn by some Muslim women | 1 answer |
| public garment | 1 answer |
| Head-to-toe garment | 2 answers |
| a loose garment worn by Muslim women especially in India and Pakistan | 2 answers |
| Muslim garment | 7 answers |
| Veil | 69 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EREAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BURKA (5)
Now I abode in such case for ten months, but it fortuned one day of the days that, as I was sitting upon my shop-board, suddenly I saw a Badawi woman bestriding a she-dromedary and she was marked with a Burka'[FN#139] of brocade and her eyes danced under her face-veil as though they were the wantoning eyes of a gazelle.
Hereupon my wife drew the Burka' from before the woman's face and caused her doff her dress, and when she was stripped she was black as a bit of charcoal.
And the traveller from the far East remarks with wonder the presence of certain ladies, whose only mark of modesty is the Burka, or face-veil: upon this laxity the police looks with lenient eyes, inasmuch as, until very lately, it paid a respectable tax to the state.[FN#16] Returning to the Moslem quarter, you are bewildered [p.82]by its variety of sounds.
The Burka (face-veil), all over Al-Hijaz is white, a decided improvement in point of cleanliness upon that of Egypt.
When abroad they cover the head with a Yashmak of black stuff, or a poppy-coloured Burka (nose-gay) of the Egyptian shape.
Quotes with BURKA (3)
... the reason why we find some things intuitively easy to grasp and others hard, is that our brains are themselves evolved organs: on-board computers, evolved to help us survive in a world (...) where the objects that mattered to our survival were neither very large nor very small; a world where things either stood still or moved slowly compared with the speed of light; and where the very improbable could safely be treated as impossible. Our mental burka window is narrow bec…
Sometimes I want to quit - not performing, but being a woman altogether. I want to throw my hands in the air after reading a mean Twitter comment and say, "All right, you got me. You figured me out. I'm not pretty. I'm not thin. I don't deserve love. I have no right to use my voice. I will start wearing a burka and move to a small town upstate and wait tables at a pancake house." So much has changed about me since I was that confident, happy girl in high school. In the years …
In the privacy of her century-worn house she donned an old burka to stay warm. Years earlier, the ragged garment had been discarded by her eldest sister, Sarah. Zoe secretly retrieved it so she could wrap herself in its fond memories. Those memories, good and bad, quickened her weary heart. Only one person could help when she got nerved-up.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (2007–2022).