turbans in English

noun
1
a man's headdress, consisting of a long length of cotton or silk wound around a cap or the head, worn especially by Muslims and Sikhs.
It is difficult for us to see any reason why a Jew may not wear his yarmulke in court or a Sikh his turban .
2
a marine mollusk with a sculptured spiral shell and a distinctive operculum which is smooth on the inside and sculptured and typically patterned on the outside.
Organ pipe coral is removed for its medicinal value, while the top shell and turban shell go to make buttons.
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1. The Fatimids gave their princely fabrics the color of light; their robes and turbans were white and gold.

2. Hasbaya keeps its traditions alive and its workshops are still producing traditional clothing such as abayas, caftans and turbans.

3. Two babushkas acknowledged me. In white smocks and turbans they stood with their red arms in a sink.

4. Jeweled Aigrettes, at first made in the form of a tuft of plumes, became an adornment for turbans in Turkey, particularly during

5. In Krishna temples, devotees sing devotional songs, perform dances and celebrate with aber (gulal) wearing traditional white and yellow turbans.

6. Arabs in Burnooses, like Carmelite friars' cloaks, fellahs, which is the people of the place, in turbans and every kind of garb—Copts, Persians, " 3

7. Some of their cheeks are stained with indigo dye from their turbans, an age-old mark of the Tuareg that led early visitors to dub them the "blue men."

8. Examples from Classical Literature Then Ma, seizing a sword, began to attitudinize, smearing his face all over with coal-dust. Ma then got up and began to Attitudinize, singing a plaintive air like the girls with the turbans

9. In that day Jehovah will take away the beauty of the bangles and the headbands and the moon-shaped ornaments, the eardrops and the bracelets and the veils, the headdresses and the step chains and the breastbands and the ‘houses of the soul’ [probably perfume receptacles] and the ornamental humming shells [or, charms], the finger rings and the nose rings, the robes of state and the overtunics and the cloaks and the purses, and the hand mirrors and the undergarments and the turbans and the large veils.”