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PLATE XXVII.
A KABARDINTAN WOMAN.
THE male dress of this tribe, as may be obsen-ed in the last Plate,
differs very little from several other tribes of Tartars; but the female
dress is one of those, which varies very much from that of the men,
more particularly in the mode of ornamenting and embroidering it.
Their head-dress is called tastar, and forms a veil, which, when they
go out, they draw over their face. Among all the tribes, comprehended
within this empire, red hair is considered a much greater beauty than
black, at least for the women, who are in general the best made and
handsomest among the Tartars. From some of these tribes come those
Circassian females (a word corrupted from Tcherkessian) who grace
the harem of the Grand Seignior. These are bought by Armenian
merchants, and then sold to the Turks.
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