Crossword-Solution: BURNOOSES 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

They fared on along the sea-shore a whole month, till they came in sight of a high mountain overlooking the sea and full of caves, wherein dwelt a tribe of blacks, clad in hides, with burnooses also of hide and speaking an unknown tongue.

Along the splendid causeway the Passover pilgrims fared, men afoot, men on camels, families and solitary travelers; the poor, the once rich, the humble and the haughty; figures in burnooses, gabardines, gowns and tunics; striped and checkered woolens, linens or rags; noisy or silent, angry or sad, hour in and hour out, until the hills were a-throb with the human atmosphere.

The Arabs and negroes of the convoy were lying motionless in the open air, rolled in their burnooses.

With this exception the whole costume was white, and although some of the Arab sheiks wore coloured burnooses, Edgar chose a white one, as both his friend and his father wore that colour.

There will be no difficulty about that, for we often dye our burnooses brown, especially when we are starting on a long journey." The sheik's wife and the other women were voluble in their expressions of satisfaction at the change in Edgar.