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  • When we came into the recovery room, we saw our son with his head tightly wrapped with a turbanlike bandage.

    The Beauty of Love Laura Posada 2010

  • The outer layer that day was black and of Japanese design; she also wore the turbanlike headgear she has adopted since cutting her hair.

    film flam Larry McMurtry 1987

  • The outer layer that day was black and of Japanese design; she also wore the turbanlike headgear she has adopted since cutting her hair.

    film flam Larry McMurtry 1987

  • The outer layer that day was black and of Japanese design; she also wore the turbanlike headgear she has adopted since cutting her hair.

    film flam Larry McMurtry 1987

  • A brown cloth, turbanlike, was twisted about his head.

    Explorers Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1980

  • His Effulgence himself was dressed in a scarlet robe and a scarlet, turbanlike head covering with scarlet fringes all around it.

    Despoilers of the Golden Empire Randall Garrett 1957

  • In summer their heads were covered with blue handkerchiefs worn turbanlike as a protection from mosquitoes as well as from the rays of the sun.

    Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year 1923

  • The women of the Pusther Thal walk about in huge turbanlike head-dresses, as becoming, and quite as heavy, as the bearskins of the Grenadiers.

    Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys 1873

  • The first I knew about any of this was waking up in the neurological intensive-care unit with a tight turbanlike pressure bandage around my head.

    NYT > Home Page By MARILYN BERGER 2011

  • The first I knew about any of this was waking up in the neurological intensive-care unit with a tight turbanlike pressure bandage around my head.

    NYT > Home Page By MARILYN BERGER 2010

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