A historical term for a type of Turkish or Ottoman military uniform or jacket, particularly a short coat worn by soldiers or officials.
From Turkish/Ottoman 'burka' or related terms combined with 'dauze' or similar suffixes indicating a type of garment. The term appears in historical accounts of Ottoman military dress.
Ottoman military uniforms changed dramatically over centuries, and terms like 'burkundauze' appear in European historical accounts as observers struggled to describe and categorize exotic foreign military garments they'd never seen before.
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