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- Kemengeh
- Kumkum and Mibkhar’ah
- Kursee and Seeneeyeh
- Lady attired for Riding or Walking
- Lantern, etc., suspended on the occasion of a Wedding
- Lunching in Karnak
- Men of the Middle and Higher Classes
The dress of the men of the middle and higher classes consists of the following articles. First, a pair of full drawers of linen or cotton, tied round the body by a running string or band, the ends of which are embroidered with coloured silks, though concealed by the outer dress. The drawers descend a little below the knees, or to the ankles; but many of the Arabs will not wear long drawers, because prohibited by the Prophet. Next is worn a shirt, with very full sleeves, reaching to the wrist; it is made of linen, of a loose, open texture, or of cotton stuff, or of muslin or silk, or of a mixture of silk and cotton, in stripes, but all white. Over this, in winter, or in cool weather, most persons wear a “sudeyree,” which is a short vest of cloth, or of striped coloured silk and cotton, without sleeves. Over the shirt and sudeyree, or the former alone, is worn a long vest of striped silk and cotton (called “kaftán,” or more commonly “kuftán”), descending to the ankles, with long sleeves extending a few inches beyond the fingers’ ends, but divided from a point a little above the wrist, or about the middle of the fore-arm; so that the hand is generally exposed, though it may be concealed by the sleeve when necessary, for it is customary to cover the hands in the presence of a person of high rank. Round this vest is wound the girdle, which is a coloured shawl, or a long piece of white figured muslin. The ordinary outer robe is a long cloth coat, of any colour (called by the Turks “jubbeh,” but by the Egyptians “gibbeh”), the sleeves of which reach not quite to the wrist.Some persons also wear a “beneesh,” or “benish,” which is a robe of cloth, with long sleeves, like those of the kuftán, but more ample - Mesh′als
- Most of the day was spent with Baedeker
- Muk-hul′ahs and Mirweds
- Náy
- Nose-rings
- On Grenfell Hill. The Keeper of the Tomb
- On the Bank
- On the Bank at Komombos
- On the Road to Cairo
- Ornamented black Veils
- Our Bisharin Friends, Assuan
- Our Christmas Dinner, Esneh, December 23
- Parade previous to Circumcision
- Pipes
- Plan of a Bath
- Posing
- Postures of Prayer (Part I.)
- Postures of Prayer (Part II.)
- Private Houses in Cairo
- Rabáb esh-Shá’er
- Rameses the Great
- Ságát
- Salem Ghesiri Dragoman
- Shepheard’s Hotel, Cairo
- Shop of a Turkish Merchant
- Shopping
- Shops in a Street in Cairo
- Sketch of a Tomb with the Entrance uncovered
- Statue of Thothmes, Karnak
- Suffeh
- Tattooed Hands and Foot
- Temple of Ti
- The Bridge
- The Doseh
- The Mahmal
- The man who has ‘been there before
- The Present Situation
- The Shádoof
- The Sheik of the Pyramids
- The Slipper Bazaar, Cairo, January 22, 1898
- Thebes, January 2, 1898
- Tisht and Ibreek
- Tombs of the Kings, Thebes
- Washing before or after a Meal
- Woman of the Southern Province of Upper Egypt
- Wooden Lock