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Definition of Turbanned
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Turbanned
Literary usage of Turbanned
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1854)
"... Turkey( our soldiers are to be made to resemble " the turbanned Turk ; " and
we suspect that it would be better to adopt a new hat of lighter material, ..."
2. Poems by Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta (1849)
"... By that high temple whence had Pallas fled: Where once she lingered, now the
crescent shone, And round him wandered many a turbanned head, ..."
3. Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1836)
"... gay and gilded Greek, Grave, turbanned Turk, and Moor of swarthy cheek;— Or
sainted John's contiguous pile explore, Gemmed altar, gilded beam, ..."
4. Anthology of Russian Literature from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Leo Wiener (1903)
"The gem in eastern mine which slumbers, Or ruddy gold 't will not bestow; 'T will
not subdue the turbanned numbers Before the Prophet's shrine which bow; ..."
5. The Literary Digest History of the World War: Compiled from Original and by Francis Whiting Halsey (1919)
"Men recalled the last words spoken by Othello in the play, as he kills himself: "In
Aleppo once, Where a malignant and a turbanned Turk, Beat a Venetian and ..."
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