Word: caftan
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...invitation, she visited the King's cloistered wife Lalla Latifa, 19-the only foreigner ever to do so. Jackie brought along toys for the two royal children and in return was swamped with gifts-a sterling silver tea set, gold encrusted tea glasses, a whole wardrobe of caftan robes and more. As she swirled through teeming market bazaars, surrounded by a phalanx of Moroccan police and U.S. Secret Service men, merchants were so charmed that they established a Marrakech precedent by giving her their wares-for free...
...dramatic lighting it ranks with the best of his work. Allan Ramsay was another Scottish painter, whose paintings managed to catch the character of his sitters so definitively that Philosopher David Hume commissioned him to paint the famed French writer-philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau, in his outlandish purple caftan and fur cap, while Rousseau was living in exile in London...
...reaching equally luminous conclusions about the Jews. He began to read the publications of Vienna's violently anti-Semitic Mayor Doktor Karl Lueger and his Christian Socialist Party. "One day when I was walking through the inner city, I suddenly came upon a being clad in a long caftan, with black curls. Is this also a Jew? was my first thought. . . . But the longer I stared at this strange face and scrutinized one feature after the other, the more my mind reshaped the first question into another form: Is this also a German...