Definition of "benish" []

• A kind of pelisse worn by Arabs. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The common shopkeeper, who walks about the whole year in his short gown, with a napkin round his loins, appears in a pink-coloured benish, lined with satin, a gold-embroidered turban,"
• "In summer, instead of the cloth benish, they wear one of very slight silk stuff, of"
• "The dress of the higher classes, in winter, is a cloth benish, or upper cloak; and a djubbe, or under cloak, likewise of cloth, and such as is worn in all parts of Turkey."