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Definition of Turban
1. Noun. A traditional Muslim headdress consisting of a long scarf wrapped around the head.
2. Noun. A small round woman's hat.
Definition of Turban
1. n. A headdress worn by men in the Levant and by most Mohammedans 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.
Definition of Turban
1. Noun. Man's headdress made by winding a length of cloth round the head. ¹
2. Noun. Woman's close-fitting hat with little or no brim. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Turban
1. a head covering worn by Muslims [n -S] : TURBANED [adj]
Medical Definition of Turban
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1. A headdress worn by men in the Levant and by most Mohammedans 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. A kind of headdress worn by women.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Turban
Literary usage of Turban
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Travels in the United States, Etc.: During 1849 and 1850 by Emmeline Stuart-Wortley (1851)
"The Steamer from Louisville—The Passengers—The Lady in the turban, and her
refractory Charges—A Family of another Description—The Liliputian Listen and his ..."
2. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"Her high-borne turban'd head she wags, and rolls her darkling eye, And courtesies
to the ... Why wag your head with turban bound, yellow, red and green ? ..."
3. The Confessions of an English Opium-eater by Thomas De Quincey (1913)
"The servant who opened the door to him was a young girl, born and bred amongst
the mountains, who had never seen an Asiatic dress of any sort : his turban, ..."
4. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and by John Smith (1836)
"There is a print, engraved by P. Louw, of a man with a short thick beard, and
having on a turban cap. 4 A by 3ft. 2 in.—C. Preisler has also engraved the ..."
5. The Talisman: A Tale of the Crusaders by Walter Scott (1878)
"But closer inspection discerned in his turban that inestimable gem, which was
called by the poets the Sea of Light; the diamond on which his signet was ..."
6. The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia: Commercial by Edward Balfour (1885)
"The great reforming Sultan Mahmud put down the turban, as he pnt down the ...
He made all civil and military officials adopt the fez, while the turban only ..."
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