And I saw that she was wearing a skirt made of a man's plaid shawl, and about her shoulders was a rosy, old-fashioned nubia.
"Friendship Village"
Zona Gale
And there, too, was Ellen Ember, wearing a white book muslin and a rosy "nubia" that had been her mother's; and Ellen's face was uplifted, and of pale distinction under the bronze glory of her hair, but all that evening she smiled and sang and wondered, in utter absence of the spirit.
"Friendship Village"
Zona Gale
We are separated from it by the immense expanse of Egypt and the whole of nubia."
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz