turban
noun
a man's headdress worn chiefly by Muslims in southern Asia, consisting of a long cloth of silk, linen, cotton, etc., wound either about a cap or directly around the head.
turbanlike
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a word derived from
turban.
Example Sentences
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The effect is to make the character — dressed in a long, off-white coat and turbanlike headband — quite uninteresting.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2015
The first I knew about any of this was waking up in the neurological intensive-care unit with a tight turbanlike pressure bandage around my head.
From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 2010
She lies on the sofa with her turbanlike Sunday hat on, the afghan wrapped around her.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
And here and there, elderly but erect, natty of attire, and countenance darkly sunburnt beneath the turbanlike puggaree enshrouding his summit, stalked unmistakably the half-pay Anglo-Indian.
From Fordham's Feud by Bertram Mitford
In summer their heads were covered with blue handkerchiefs worn turbanlike as a protection from mosquitoes as well as from the rays of the sun.
From Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year by E. C. (Ernest Clark) Hartwell
