Crossword-Solution: BURNUS 6 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

These wretches, who were about a dozen in number, appeared to be of the lowest class; their garments consisted of a Burnus-cloak and a pair of sandals; their sole weapon a long knife, and their only stock a bag of dry provisions.

The males were clad in "Burnus"-brown or striped woollen cloaks with hoods; they had neither turband nor tarbush, trusting to their thick curly hair or to the prodigious hardness of their scalps as a defence against the sun; and there was not a slipper nor a shoe amongst the party.

And when the Romans engaged with them at a place called Scardon, they were defeated in the battle and retired to the city of Burnus; and there Uligisalus awaited his colleague.

Moreover, it would be further necessary to prove that the _birrus_, in contradistinction to the _paenula_, was always open in front; whereas, _per contra_, the _paenula_, both as worn by soldiers and in ordinary life, was, like the modern Arab _burnus_, often slit up the front to the neck.