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Example sentences for "caftan"

Lexicographically close words:
cafeteria; cafeterias; caffe; caffein; caffeine; caftans; cage; caged; cages; caging
  1. Peter the Hermit vanished and almost immediately the bust of a Saracen, clad in the purple caftan embroidered in gold, appeared above.

  2. A turban of an old yellow-and-red material partially covered her thick and curly hair; a waistcoat or caftan of pale green and open embroidery, the spoils of a Saracen and twice too large for her, served her for a robe.

  3. The sleeves of the caftan are as wide as those of the shirt; the breast of it is fastened with buttons, in the Moorish style, but larger.

  4. One dagger for a pinch, slippers powdered with pearls,66 a caftan of cloth of gold, a Cachemire girdle, and a pelisse of sables.

  5. God is great,' exclaimed Ali; 'he breathes; the breast of his caftan heaved.

  6. The guard disappeared; and the caftan falling to the ground, revealed Honain.

  7. Go, now: you shall have ten rubles and an embroidered caftan for your singing.

  8. He wore a caftan of green velvet laced with gold, a huge vest of crimson brocade, and breeches of yellow satin.

  9. Along this road walked a man, wearing the long cloth caftan of a merchant.

  10. A little boy in his father's arms, his image in miniature, with a miniature grimy caftan and miniature coal-black ringlets beneath his little black skull-cap.

  11. At last he appeared, tall and majestic, in a flowing caftan of white satin, cut so as to reveal his bare breast.

  12. He was a tall, stout man, and his rich and ample caftan hardly covered him.

  13. Another day the Khoja's wife washed his caftan and spread it upon a tree in the garden of the house.

  14. He wore a caftan of green velvet laced with gold; a huge vest of crimson brocade, and breeches of yellow satin.

  15. The Boiarskey or Gentlemans attire is of the same fashion, but differeth in stuffe: and yet he will haue his Caftan or vndercoat sometimes of cloth of golde, the rest of cloth, or silke.

  16. A man in a caftan opened the door, and mechanically raised his forefinger to bid her enter without noise.

  17. He was dressed in a short white caftan that descended to his knees, and was caught about his waist in a shimmering girdle of gold that quivered like fire in the glow of the torches as he moved.

  18. A graceful stripling in turban and caftan of cloth of gold salaamed to him from the topmast step.

  19. On the table stands a silver lamp, which sheds a faint light through the spacious room, upon the gold-embroidered caftan of the pacba, and upon his proud, gloomy countenance.

  20. It is certainly not as handsome as yours, the caftan not embroidered, the shawl not of Persian make, and the kuffei around my fez not inworked with gold.

  21. Cousrouf walks thoughtfully to and fro in the room for a time, his gold-embroidered caftan trailing on the carpet behind him, and the crescent on his turban glittering in the sunlight.

  22. The long, flowing sleeves of her caftan were slit up in front and gathered only at the shoulder, thus exposing to view the most perfect pair of arms ever dreamt of by sculptor.

  23. She wore a long Persian caftan that reached to her ankles and defined rather than veiled her shapely figure.

  24. Thereupon he called halt, and the caravan turned back to re-find the road, Spinoza prying on camel-back foremost, clad now in the caftan and white robes of the Orient.

  25. So Semen put them in, pulled the caftan on him, wrapped him in it, and girded it with the belt.

  26. Semen threw his caftan over the man's shoulders.

  27. That enraged Matrena even more: he had bought no fur coat, and the only caftan they had he had put on a naked fellow, and had even brought him along.

  28. He rolled the caftan up under his head and lay down to sleep.

  29. Matrena could not sleep for a long time, and she heard that Semen, too, was not sleeping; he kept pulling the caftan on himself.

  30. The saint of the green caftan departed in disgust.

  31. At that moment he perceived a form in a black caftan glide away like a shadow out of the bar across the entrance.

  32. All this part of his costume was concealed by an ample caftan of olive-green cloth, which had a hood of the same material, and which we may compare to a modern caban.

  33. Trishka's Caftan Trishka's caftan was out at the elbows.

  34. Then Trishka was happy, though he had a caftan which was as short as a waistcoat.

  35. The caftan was all right again, only his arms were bare for a quarter of their length.

  36. He loves the sun, and the Rebbe hangs his caftan across the window, and the Cheder is darkened, so that it oppresses the soul.

  37. But this golden caftan did not go at all well with his coarse fur jacket, nor with his wooden sandals and lambskin cap.

  38. He was young, tall, and broad-shouldered; and if his ample caftan gave sorry proof of the difficult path he had come by, there was no weariness in his movements.

  39. Two of them said mass, while the clerk, clad in a sheepskin caftan reaching to his feet, zealously and devoutly swung an immense censer.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "caftan" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.