[415]Arab.'Akmam，'pl.of Kumm，a sleeve，a petal.See vol.iv.107 and supra p.267.The Moslem woman will show any part of her person rather than her face，instinctively knowing that the latter may be recognised whereas the former cannot.The traveller in the outer East will see ludicrous situations in which the modest one runs away with hind parts bare and head and face carefully covered.
[416]Arab.'Ikyan'which Mr.Payne translates'vegetable gold'very picturesquely but not quite preserving the idea.See supra p.272.
[417]It is the custom for fast youths，in Egypt，Syria，and elsewhere to stick small gold pieces，mere spangles of metal on the brows，cheeks and lips of the singing and dancing girls and the perspiration and mask of cosmetics make them adhere for a time till fresh movement shakes them off.