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tur·ban
I. \ˈtərbən, ˈtə̄b-, ˈtəib-\ noun
(-s)
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle French turbant, from Italian turbante, modification of Turkish dülbend, tülbend, from Persian dulband
1. : a headdress worn chiefly in countries of the eastern Mediterranean and southern Asia especially by Muslims and made of a cap around which is wound a long cloth
2. archaic : muslim
3. : an emblematic representation of a turban (as on a Muslim funeral monument or in a heraldic device)
4. : a symbolic representation of Islam in the form of a turban
< I was better fitted for the turban than the cowl — Linda Villari >
5. : a headdress resembling a Muslim turban: as
a. : a fashionable headdress for women especially in the 19th century
b. : a cloth, bandanna, or towel wrapped or tied about the head
< their black skins and snow-white linen being set off by colored turbans — C.R.Darwin >
c. : a woman's brimless close-fitting hat usually of draped fabric
6. : turban shell
7. : a dish (as a fillet of fish) formed in the shape of a turban to permit the center to be filled with a suitable accompanying mixture
< turban of filet of sole with quenelles of shrimp and caviar Moscovite — Newsweek >
 [turban 1]
II. transitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
: to envelop with or as if with a turban
< the wreaths, like mist, that turban thy dusk brow — H.H.Milman >
< turbaned in a wet huck towel — Peter De Vries > |