Word: burnous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large plot of ground provided gratis by a rich Tunisian Jew, and surrounded by gewgaws, food and drink stands. A couple of thousand found quarters with thrifty Tunisians, Moslems and Jews, who scraped and cooed to these profitable "infidels." The visiting "infidels" sharply eyed the resident "infidels," for white burnous-clad Mohammedans had cruelly murdered Christians and destroyed great Christian Carthage in 698 A.D. Nonetheless, the visitors, including 1,000 from the U. S., swarmed over the countryside to see the sights. Silently vexed were Moslems when the visitors trooped through nearby Qairw?n, a Moslem pilgrimage centre almost...
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