An arab dandy
- Posted by mgr on October 21st, 2007 filed in Dandy-Typen, Zeitdokumente
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[...] Beside these we set a representative Arab head, sketched in the streets of Algiers. See the feline characteristics, the pointed, drooping moustache and chin-tuft, the extreme retrocession of the nostrils, the thin, weak and cruel mouth, the retreating forehead, the filmed eye, the ennui, the terrestrial detachment, of the Arab. He is a dandy, a creature of alternate flash and dejection, a wearer of ornaments, a man proud of his striped hood and ornamental agraffes.
From: “THE ROUMI IN KABYLIA.” In: LIPPINCOTT’S MAGAZINE OF POPULAR LITERATURE AND SCIENCE. MAY, 1873.
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