boorka

boorka (plural boorkas)

1. Obsolete spelling of burka
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “Beyond the Pale”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio, published 2005, page 117:

     So he went, that very night at eleven, into Amir Nath's Gully, clad in a boorka, which cloaks a man as well as a woman.

• Baroko, abrook