یاشمقجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From یاشمق (yaşmak, “yashmak, niqab, veil”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

یاشمقجی • (yaşmakcı)

1. female attendant in charge of the veils of a lady

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یاشمقجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2186