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Definition of Turbant
1. n. A turban.
Definition of Turbant
1. Noun. (obsolete form of turban) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Turbant
1. a head covering [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Turbant
Literary usage of Turbant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and by Henry Yule, Arthur Coke Burnell, William Crooke (1903)
"They (the Sepoys) are chiefly armed in the country manner, with sword and target,
and wear the Indian dress, the turbant, the cabay ..."
2. Folk-Etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in by Abram Smythe Palmer (1882)
"Cotgrave defines turban (which he also gives as turbant, ... Elsewhere he spells
it turbant. They are not leap'a into rough chins and ..."
3. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"TURBAN, a head-covering worn in the East. (F.,-Ital.,- Turkish, — 1'ers., —
Hindustani.) Spelt turbant, Fairfax, tr. of Tasso, b. xvii. st. io (R.); ..."
4. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1901)
"MF turbant, turban, a turban ; Cot. — Ital. turbante, ' a turbant ; ' Florio.
— Turk, tul- bend, vulgar form of ..."
5. The Origin of Language and Nations: Hieroglyfically, Etymologically, and ...by Rowland Jones by Rowland Jones (1764)
"turbant comes from twr-ben-it, it is the head heap ; talaith comes from to-al-ith,
it is the high covering; tiara is a compound of to-ar, a covering upon ..."
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