单词 | turban |
释义 | turban From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Clothesturbantur‧ban /ˈtɜːbən $ ˈtɜːr-/ noun [countable]DCCa long piece of cloth that you wind tightly round your head, worn by men in parts of North Africa and Southern Asia and sometimes by women as a fashionExamples from the Corpusturban• The prince's head was cleaned, wrapped in a turban and presented to Aurangzeb on a golden dish.• A middle-aged woman, wearing what looked like a turban, was looking out at the night.• The Fatimids gave their princely fabrics the color of light; their robes and turbans were white and gold.• Battery-powered lights danced around his gold brocade turban and his feet were pressed into gold-trimmed shoes with backward curling points.• A few shepherds whom you could mistake for stones had they not been topped by turbans sat motionless under the sun.• There was a young Sikh in a red turban, wearing a blue quilted jacket despite the heat.Origin turban (1500-1600) French Italian turbante, from Turkish tülbend, from Persian dulband |
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