| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| burnoose |
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| SYLLABICATION: | bur·noose |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  b r-n s |
| VARIANT FORMS: | also bur·nous |
| NOUN: | A hooded cloak worn especially by Arabs and Berbers. | | ETYMOLOGY: | French burnous, from Arabic burnus, from Greek birros, hooded cloak, from Late Latin birrus.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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