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- noun Plural form of
turban .
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Examples
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One would see her in turbans, jewels, furs, couture gowns and it's easy to see where Oliver's sense of imagination emanated from.
Carole Mallory: Oliver Stone Is Walking Tall These Days Carole Mallory 2010
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One would see her in turbans, jewels, furs, couture gowns and it's easy to see where Oliver's sense of imagination emanated from.
Carole Mallory: Oliver Stone Is Walking Tall These Days Carole Mallory 2010
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And, of course, modern people simply don't look as interesting as all those people in turbans lounging and looking at textiles (but did they really look like that?).
Archive 2008-04-01 Heather McDougal 2008
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And, of course, modern people simply don't look as interesting as all those people in turbans lounging and looking at textiles (but did they really look like that?).
Photography, Space, and the Brain: In Appreciation of Drawing Heather McDougal 2008
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“Little Big Horn in turbans,” as Marcus Luttrell would describe it.
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A reader on Dvorak's forum says that the supposed Islamic fundamentalist video games where players are guerrillas in turbans stalking invading soldiers in tanks is a hoax:
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Presumably muslin turbans, let alone oily hair-dressing, often caused such mishaps.
Psalms of the Sisters Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys 1909
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Miss Mehitable set the child down by the side of a great dark wooden bedstead, with tall, carved posts, draped with curious curtains of India linen, where strange Oriental plants and birds, and quaint pagodas and figures in turbans, were all mingled together, like the phantasms in a dream.
Oldtown Folks 1869
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So if you’re lookign at it from a “dark guys in turbans” prism you’re waaaayyy off.
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Inside the room were a number of gem cutting and polishing machines being operated by small, dark men in turbans.
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