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Example sentences for "caftans"

Lexicographically close words:
cafeterias; caffe; caffein; caffeine; caftan; cage; caged; cages; caging; cagion
  1. And presently, on the roof adjoining ours, appeared the slim dancing-boys with white caftans and hennaed feet.

  2. And this is the reason why most of the white caftans simply rock and writhe, while the humble blue shirts drip with blood.

  3. The dancers were all dressed in white caftans or in the blue shirts of the lowest classes.

  4. Many rich caftans were spotted with blood, and dust covered the brazen helmets.

  5. Others wore pink and blue caps, drooping over one ear, and caftans with the sleeves thrown back, embroidered with gold.

  6. We rode slowly along through the cool twilight, crossed here and there by long pencils of white light, falling through apertures in the roof, and illuminating the gay turbans and silk caftans of the lazy merchants.

  7. Peasants were walking beside the sleighs, and the collars of their caftans were raised.

  8. Behind them stood the more modest women in white 'kerchiefs and gray caftans and ancient skirts, in shoes or bast slippers.

  9. Every year a thousand caftans disappear to make room for as many black coats; every day sees the death of a Turk of the old school, the birth of one of the new.


  10. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "caftans" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.