A dictionary of the Bible; dealing with its language, literature, and contents, including the Biblical theology; . re serviceexposed to the sun, and yet having a distinctlydecorative purpose. These conditions are best metby the loose kerchief for head and neck, which isstill a striking feature in Oriental dress ; and in itsprotective usefulness and dignified elegance is anaccommodation at once to the climate and thecharacter. While this bonnet or head-tire among theBedawin is simply a square of black or bluecotton, and the day-labourer improvises anythingto cover the back of the head and neck,
A dictionary of the Bible; dealing with its language, literature, and contents, including the Biblical theology; . re serviceexposed to the sun, and yet having a distinctlydecorative purpose. These conditions are best metby the loose kerchief for head and neck, which isstill a striking feature in Oriental dress ; and in itsprotective usefulness and dignified elegance is anaccommodation at once to the climate and thecharacter. While this bonnet or head-tire among theBedawin is simply a square of black or bluecotton, and the day-labourer improvises anythingto cover the back of the head and neck, that wornby the men of the to^^ns and villages is a fabricaoout a yard square of the finest white sUk, usuallyedged with bright stripes, and called a kufiyeh. The corresponding art. of female dress is thegraceful outdoor veil for the head and neck, calleda turhah. This would connect iV??? ^tb Vii), and the cowl. According to tliis interpretation,a survival of the article in a modified form may beseen in the drapery that droops in light loose foldsfrom the high turban of the Oriental priest; TrRBAS OF ORIENTAI. (ORRBK) rRIXST. by its connexion with the monks hood and theconventual veU, is stUl among the insignia ofpriestly dress. (See Dress.) G. M. Mackie. BOOK.—See Writing. BOOTH.—At the season when the fruits of fieldand orchard are ripening, the Syrian peasant oftenfinds it prudent to leave his home in the villageand take up his abode for a time in the portion ofthe field belonging to him, for the double purposeof guarding his produce against ill-disposed neigh-bours, and of more eflectively carrying on the work BOOTY BOTTLE 311 of the grain and fruit harvesta. To shelter hiraand his from the noonday heat and from the dewsof night (cf. la 4), a small hut is haatily constructedof leafy hranches from the nearest trees. Such anerection is called in Heb. njp, by AV variouslyrendered booth, tabernacle, pavilion, etc. Jonahs b. was of this description (4), a
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