Notes Relating to the Manners and Customs of the Crim Tatars: Written During a Four Years' Residence Among that People. With Plates |
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... dress of a Tatar gentleman is of cloth , trimmed with gold or silver lace , or in the heat of summer , of Turkish silk , or of silk mixed with stuff . In winter his coat is lined with fur , his trowsers are worn tight and low at the ...
... dress of a Tatar gentleman is of cloth , trimmed with gold or silver lace , or in the heat of summer , of Turkish silk , or of silk mixed with stuff . In winter his coat is lined with fur , his trowsers are worn tight and low at the ...
Page 11
... dress of the women consists of a pair of trowsers , tied at the ancle and falling loose to the heel ; a shift , and a quilted robe , made either of Turkish silk or cotton , or of gold or silver brocade , according to the rank and ...
... dress of the women consists of a pair of trowsers , tied at the ancle and falling loose to the heel ; a shift , and a quilted robe , made either of Turkish silk or cotton , or of gold or silver brocade , according to the rank and ...
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... as a shift of it will cost about fifty roubles . Their linen is , for the most part , soft in its texture , and open , though not very fine . The summer dresses of the men ( I mean of the peasants ) are THE CRIM TATARS . 15.
... as a shift of it will cost about fifty roubles . Their linen is , for the most part , soft in its texture , and open , though not very fine . The summer dresses of the men ( I mean of the peasants ) are THE CRIM TATARS . 15.
Page 17
... very fond of shewy colours and gilding , in their dress as well as in the decorations of their apartments ; but a Tatar woman , in all her brocade , is a most ungraceful and stiff - looking figure . The pea- sants are THE CRIM TATARS . 17.
... very fond of shewy colours and gilding , in their dress as well as in the decorations of their apartments ; but a Tatar woman , in all her brocade , is a most ungraceful and stiff - looking figure . The pea- sants are THE CRIM TATARS . 17.
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... dress , the ugliness of its features , and , more than all , the scorbutic humours which almost invariably cover it from a very short time after its birth , make it , of all the infants I ever saw , the most disgusting and uninteresting ...
... dress , the ugliness of its features , and , more than all , the scorbutic humours which almost invariably cover it from a very short time after its birth , make it , of all the infants I ever saw , the most disgusting and uninteresting ...
Common terms and phrases
Akmetchet animals attendants bagpipe beauty believe boiled bride brought Bulgarians ceremony Cimmerian Circassian clothes coarse commonly consists corn Cossack covered CRIM TATARS Crimea deceased dish distance dress favourite fifty kopeeks five roubles flocks four fruit garden at Karagoss girls Greeks hair handkerchief handsome heat Horse-racing horses husband inhabitants Kaffa kaftan Karasubazar Kertch knout known labour lamb land latter likewise married millet mountain Mulla Murza neighbourhood nerality never occasion Odessa pairs of oxen party peasant peasantry peninsula Perekop persons petack plough pood possesses prayers priest proprietor quantity remarkable residence round Russian salt scorbutic season seen Sevastopol sheep sherbet shoes silver sold sort south coast Stepp Sudac summer taboon taste Tatar sacerdatal Tatar women tenced Theodosia thousand threshing thrown tion towns trees trowsers Turkish silk twenty versts village of Karagoss wear wedding wife winter