turban

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For Sikhs the turban is a symbol of courage and spirituality and must be worn by all adult males.

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  1. noun A traditionally Muslim headdress consisting of a long scarf of linen, cotton, or silk that is wound around a small cap or directly around the head.
  2. noun A woman's close-fitting hat that consists of material wound around a small inner cap.

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  • Other guards were arranged about the vessel The Sultan was handsomely dressed in a silken turban, a sky-coloured silk pair of breeches, and a piece of red silk thrown across his shoulders, the greater part of his back and waist appearing naked. —  Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold
  • Then thou shalt have the money Sadok hid the scorpions upon his shaven head beneath his turban, and they went by the dunes and the lonely ways to the café of the dancers Already the pipers were playing, and many were assembled to see the women dance; but Ben-Abid and Sadok pushed through the throng, and passed across the café to the inner court, which is open to the air, and surrounded with earthen terraces on which, in tiers, open the rooms of the dancers, each with its own front door. —  Halima And The Scorpions 1905
  • I saw a man in a turban, and there is a black man in the house, and Hush, little nieces, how are aunties to get up, if you chatter so? —  Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island
  • This last was worn in the form of a turban, and one end escaping from behind, and hanging down her back, it looked for all the world like a flag hung out from a top turret. —  Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time
  • The front of his turban is embroidered with gold BUILDINGS The houses are like those at Timbuctoo, but many much larger. —  An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa
 

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  1. French turbant, from Italian turbante, from Ottoman Turkish tülbend, muslin, gauze, turban; see tulip.

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  1. Early modern English, also turband, turbant, turbent, turribant, turbanto =Middle Dutch turbant = G. Swedish Danish turban, from Old French turban, turbant, French turban =Spanish Portuguese Italian turbante; also in a more orig. form, early modern English tuliban, tolliban, tulibant, tolibant, tulipant, tolipant, tolipane =D. tulband, tulpe, from OF, toliban, tollipan, tolopan (Middle Latin tulipantus, also tulipa); from Turkish tulbend, dulbend =Arabic dulband, from Persian Hindustani dulband, a turban. From the same source is English tulip, literally ‘a turban’: see tulip.
 

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