turban

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. 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. n. A woman's close-fitting hat that consists of material wound around a small inner cap.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The distinctive head-dress of men of the Moslem nations, consisting of a scarf or shawl wound around the tarboosh. The color and material of the scarf differ with the rank find position of the wearer, though not uniformly. Thus, a sherif, or descendant of Mohammed, is entitled to wear a green wrapper for the turban, and the doctors of the law sometimes wear a turban of extraordinary size, of which the exact style, number of turns in the twist, etc., are important.
2. n. A modification of the Oriental turban, worn by women in Europe and America during the first half of the nineteenth century.
3. n. A head-dress consisting of a bright-colored handkerchief or square of cotton, worn by negro women in the West Indies and the southern United States.
4. n. During the latter half of the nineteenth century, a hat consisting of a crown either without a brim or with a brim turned up close alongside the crown, worn by women and children.
5. n. In heraldry, a high rounded cap, supposed to be the official head-dress of the Sultan of Turkey: it is usually represented with plumes attached to its sides, with jeweled clasps, and the like. Also called Turkish crown.
6. n. In conchology, the spire of a univalve shell. See spire, 2, and univalve (with cuts)

Wiktionary

1. n. Man's headdress made by winding a length of cloth round the head.
2. n. Woman's close-fitting hat with little or no brim.
3. n. The whole set of whorls of a spiral shell.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A headdress worn by men in the Levant and by many Muslims of the male sex, consisting of a cap, and a sash, scarf, or shawl, usually of cotton or linen, wound about the cap, and sometimes hanging down the neck.
2. n. A kind of headdress worn by women.
3. n. (Zoöl.) The whole set of whorls of a spiral shell.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a small round woman's hat
2. n. a traditional Muslim headdress consisting of a long scarf wrapped around the head