On Monday, the 1st of August, the house was prepared and the hangings and curtains put up, and on that evening the ceremony of dyeing the fingers of the bridegroom with henna was performed for the first time.
A pinch of the henna is then taken and dabbed upon the centre of each palm, the hands of the sitter being turned over to enable this to be done.
The leaves of the henna plant, or a preparation or dyestuff made from them.
Age that Dyes So many women seem to imagine that when they dip their heads in henna twenty years suddenly slips from off them into the mess.
Not until a woman dips her hair in henna and, metaphorically speaking, cries, "See how young I look now!
He rubbed the tip of his brown nose, and she saw the henna stains upon his nails.
The Henna shrub is cultivated in irrigated fields at Ghabs (Tunis), and is a source of wealth.
The hairs which are of a dull grey or red brown, are usually dyed with henna when made up into fly-flaps.
Is it some kind of henna grown in thy country, which dyes it that beautiful colour?
Mouni told Josette she had never seen any one so beautiful, and that her mistress had hair of a natural colour, redder than hair dyed with henna and powdered with gold dust.
Our young girls have their hair tinted with henna when they are betrothed, that they may be more fair in the eyes of their husbands.
Also the hand of woman reddened with henna is as a brazier of rosy flame to kindle the heart of a lover.
Soft meads shall fail thee not, and ever-blooming flowers, such as thy Henna ne’er produced, breathe to gentler zephyrs.
Viderat herboso sacrum de vertice vulgus Henna parens florum curvaque in valle sedentem Page 323 though diverse was her shape--of sun and moon that bring the dawning and the night.
Gone was the silken mantle that had been about her below stairs and he saw now that she was a vivid, exotic shimmer of gauzy green against the saffron veil that fell from her henna hair.
The whisper of her silks, the remembered gleam of jewels in the henna hair flouted that thought, and not troubling his ingenuity with alternatives he was content to follow her swift steps.
If they kept the mashrubiyeh on the windows and the yashmak on their faces they ought to keep the kohl on their eyes and the henna on their fingers and education out of their hidden heads.
Mrs. Alan Stacy, the lady with the magnificent henna hair, had recently given less time to him, being engaged in the preliminary instruction of a new member of the Infant Class.
His first taste had come only the previous evening, when he had been invited to the Red Fort to witness and take part in the henna bandi ceremony.
A robust woman from the zenana seized his fingers and began to daub them with henna paste.
If you can get the rest of the henna off your fingers by then.
The square just below the Diwan-i-Khas, where Arangbar's birthday weighing was held only two weeks before, had been cleared and made ready for the henna ceremony.
They carried a silver chalice filled with red henna paste.
You," Hawksworth lied, and absently stroked the edge of her foot, where the henna line began.
In the Turkish sweating baths the attendants scatter the henna upon the hair of the women and tie it upon the finger nails.
In the Bible the henna flower is called kopher, in Greek kypros, and the Cyprian salve, mentioned by Pliny, was prepared by boiling henna flowers in oil and then expressing them.
Color the water with cochineal tincture or henna tincture.
In Egypt, the Hebrew woman had known the sweet-scented flower of the henna bush, and, finding it also in Judea, it served her as a perfume.
The women then frequently remain for hours in the steam bath, whereby the powdered henna is converted into an extract-like mass which colors hair and nails red-brown.
Hair dyed red withhenna acquires a beautiful black color when subsequently treated with indigo, this mode of dyeing black being much in vogue in the Orient.
The process is as follows: The hair, being freed from fat with soap, is divided into separate strands and anointed with quite a stiff paste prepared from pulverized henna and lukewarm water.
Then add the tincture of cantharides and the perfumes, and color red with cochineal tincture orhenna tincture.
It is said that henna even colors the coal-black hair of the Arabs red-brown, which is considered beautiful.
They were much surprised that the lady of our party didn't smoke, and they wanted to stain her nails with henna and paint her eye-lashes.
You have thought it, which is much the same, for you said that her hair was red but that mine neededhenna to brighten it.
Then is love henna to make my hair bright, or kohl to darken my eyes, or a boiled egg with almonds to smooth my face?
It was amusing to see the little children with their arms held aloft bound up in leaves to their elbows, to keep their hands nice, as they had been dyed with henna for the festival.
The attempts at beautifying the face are often referred to by the poets as marks of beauty, as when Fuzuli dilates upon the "Eyes with antimony darkened, hands with henna crimson dyed.
The finger nails came in for a full share of attention, henna being used to stain them.
The painting of the eyebrows and the dyeing of the finger tips with henna were considered marks of beauty.
Like the ancient Egyptians, they blackened their eyelashes and eyebrows and used henna stains upon their finger tips.
Abu Bakr, who was two years and some months older than the Prophet, used tincture of Henna and Katam.
FN#367] The "Unguinum fulgor" of the Latins who did not forget to celebrate the shining of the nails although they did not Henna them like Easterns.
Before they had decided definitely upon the extravagance of a henna rinse, which was only a timid sort of experiment and at best a mere compromise art and nature, Marion had applied the tonic.
Why, a henna rinse would brighten your hair, Kate--and lots of nice women have them.
My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms from the vineyards of En Gedi.
Henna is a sign of rejoicing, and is not worn in mourning.
The use of henna is common to men and women alike.
A little henna has rather a pretty effect, being a sort of orange-red in colour.
She was relieved to find that her henna wig was not so very much out of place.
Her sandy hair was completely covered by a henna wig, bobbed and crimped.
Josie in a mincing tone quite in keeping with her hennawig and lace ruffle.
The henna wig again served its turn and her countenance was so made up that her best friends had difficulty in recognizing her.
First the henna wig was pulled off and Josie brushed out her neat sandy braids that had been tightly coiled around her head.
She still clung to the bobbed henna wig with its permanent wave.
Omhal Henna quickly escaped; she had overstepped the line, and I saw her no more.
The mistress of the house, when she goes to rest, has her feet put into a cold poultice of the pounded henna leaves.
The bride herself visits the bridegroom, and applies the hennaplasters with her own hands.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "henna" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
