_ 139 _ feet, without collar or hood. These are like clerical cloaks, but the skirt is not so full and they have sleeves. Others wear capes with hoods and tunics open at the front, with buttons and braiding, also down to the feet, and turbans on their heads. The janissaries are an exception; in order to be recognized they wear on their heads a silver object with a browband like a horse, engraved and inlaid with turquoises and rubies according to what each can afford. These browbands are sewn on to round headdresses of white cloth, two palms high, which are folded at the back. The chauses, who are like corregedores, appointed by the janissaries themselves, wear turbans with a hood like of Shah Tamas coming out of the middle of them, about a palm long and as thick as an arm, in multi-striped velvet. They are all fair-skinned, well-mannered people. The women are very beautiful but much concealed. The maidservants are old and wear a large sheet thrown about themselves and their clothes which entirely cover them down to the feet, and they wear these like we do cloaks. On their heads they wear large cloths over their headdresses and their faces are covered with black veils of thin lace, through which they can see.
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