bashlyk

Noun

1. A protective cone-shaped hood with lappets for wrapping around the neck, used especially by Turks and Cossacks.
   • In winter the troops wore the grey greatcoat and the bashlyk, a sort of hood protecting the neck and ears. - 1962, Henri Troyat, Daily Life in Russia Under the Last Tsar, page 123:
   • The description of Jews wearing very high hats ("as tall as themselves" or "an amah high") calls to mind the tall pointed cap, or hood bashlyk brought by the Iranians from the Siberian steppes. The bashlyk occurs with...
   • The obverse bust wears a completely new style of bashlyk, resembling the Macedonian kausia, but with a flap at the back and an eagle on top. - 1983, E. Yarshater, The Cambridge History of Iran, volume 3(1), page 303