turban

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tur·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 fashion 〔北非、南亚地区男性缠在头上的〕头巾；女用头巾

Examples from the Corpus

turban• 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.• The Arab Abul Ismail, erect and gaunt and impassive in turban and robes.• 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

tur·ban nounChineseSyllable  

cloth round that of Corpus you piece tightly long a wind

turban
tur‧ban /ˈtɜːbən $ ˈtɜːr-/ noun [countable]a 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 fashion

tur·banBrE /ˈtɜːbən/ 🔊NAmE /ˈtɜːrbən/ 🔊 nouna long piece of cloth wound tightly around the head, worn, for example, by Muslim or Sikh men （穆斯林或锡克教男教徒等用的）包头巾a woman's hat that looks like a turban （女用）头巾帽▸ tur·baned BrE /ˈtɜːbənd/ 🔊NAmE /ˈtɜːrbənd/ 🔊 adjective◆turbaned Sikhs包着头巾的锡克教徒