(n.) A species of silk or cotton handkerchief, having a uniformly dyed ground, usually of red or blue, with white or yellow figures of a circular, lozenge, or other simple form.
(n.) A style of calico printing, in which white or bright spots are produced upon cloth previously dyed of a uniform red or dark color, by discharging portions of the color by chemical means, while the rest of the cloth is under pressure.
Example Sentences:
(1) That bullshit jury was fixed,” read the placard of a young man in a hoodie, bandana and gloves on the now-frigid streets of a town where clashes with police raged this August.
(2) Gangs in bandanas rampaged through the dollar stores, barbers, and takeaways of West Florissant Avenue.
(3) I took my bandana off and I put it in a knot and shoved it in his bullet hole in his back.” Junior had been shot twice.
(4) Eighteen months ago they sent out a solitary photo of a group of kids in a car park , shrouded in smoke, their faces covered by white bandanas.
(5) They are pictured holding guns and dressed in desert camouflage and brown bandanas.
(6) The TV performance saw Fallon begin, dressed in the sleeveless-denim-and-bandana look Springsteen sported in the mid-80s, before the Boss – dressed identically – came out to take over.
(7) He told her that someone was there for her and as she opened the front door she was confronted by a figure in a grey hoodie, a bandana over his face and his hood up.
(8) But some officials believe it is a woman with a pony tail while others believe that is being confused for a bandana.
(9) We wore bandanas, and I bought a couple of “weskits”, but resisted the urge to add a pair of fringed leather chaps.
(10) He saw the padded jackets, the riot clubs, the helmets and the bandanas concealing the policemen's faces, changed his mind and ran up the stairs to escape.
(11) Several had shaved heads, most had beards, some had bandanas, most seemed middle-aged, a handful were young.
(12) A group of police officers walked by, and each one lifted the bandana which concealed his identity, leaned down and spat on her face.
(13) There's burnt cars, bins on fire, and hundreds of guys with bandanas round their faces.
(14) Hell yeah, I’m angry!” Hamilton says, pushing down her bandana to speak to me.
(15) What kind of response is that?” said Ibrahim Morocco, a protester wearing a red bandana.
(16) The soundbites keep coming from rock gods in bandanas praising Lemmy for his "realness" and his "badness", but none of these multi-millionaires are still drinking down at The Rainbow.
(17) Out of respect to Sikhs as he visited their holiest site, he wore a dark blue bandana on his head.
(18) The uniform: a white shirt and a red bandana neck tie.
(19) They buzz you in, check your ID, have videos monitoring and even have a dress code – one man was asked to take off his hooded top and bandana.
(20) 'He had a scarf like a bandana and a scarf on his mouth and he was carrying a machine gun,' she said.
Scarf
Definition:
(n.) A cormorant.
(n.) An article of dress of a light and decorative character, worn loosely over the shoulders or about the neck or the waist; a light shawl or handkerchief for the neck; also, a cravat; a neckcloth.
(v. t.) To throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf.
(v. t.) To dress with a scarf, or as with a scarf; to cover with a loose wrapping.
(v. t.) To form a scarf on the end or edge of, as for a joint in timber, metal rods, etc.
(v. t.) To unite, as two pieces of timber or metal, by a scarf joint.
(n.) In a piece which is to be united to another by a scarf joint, the part of the end or edge that is tapered off, rabbeted, or notched so as to be thinner than the rest of the piece.
(n.) A scarf joint.
Example Sentences:
(1) Schyman comes across like a fusion of Germaine Greer and Ken Livingstone, dressed in Parisian chic with a maroon dress and a colourful scarf.
(2) Here’s Marie-Josée Kravis, advisor to the New York Fed, accessorizing brilliantly with her snake-effect silk scarf off on a power walk with her billionaire financier husband Henry Kravis, head of predatory investment company KKR.
(3) They say it is easier than knitting a scarf, the typical starter project for novices.
(4) After scarfing platefuls of seafood on the terrace, we wandered down to the harbour where two fishermen, kitted out in wetsuits, were setting out by boat across the clear turquoise water to collect goose barnacles.
(5) 37 Castle Street, Somerset, A5 1LN; 01278 732 266; janetphillips-weaving.co.uk East Assington Mill's rural skills courses range from cane-and-rush chair making to silk scarf dyeing– and some more unusual options, too.
(6) Their scarf-twirling fans were a wedge of Mediterranean colour spliced into a block of Mancunian red.
(7) Under the vast murals of Oslo's City Hall, the traditional venue for the Nobel peace prize lectures, Aung Sun Suu Kyi appeared impossibly small, entering the hall wearing a purple jacket and flowing lilac scarf to the sound of a trumpet fanfare.
(8) In 12 dogs, a Vicryl scarf was laid around the cardia; six dogs served as controls.
(9) The scarf will demonstrate to the fans that you recognize the dictator for who he really is, and show that you stand behind the fans.
(10) To really be beloved in France he needs to learn to swear with the virtuosity of a Frenchman who's mislaid his linen Agnes B scarf in the Rue du Bac.
(11) The barman told her the gunman was “Arabic looking”, with a beard and a scarf partially covering his face.
(12) Though he loves sport, he is now sworn off attending NFL matches at the MetLife stadium after attending a Jets v Titans game with his girlfriend and being “vilified from the parking lot to my seat for wearing a scarf”.
(13) However, that line was breached decisively on Monday night when Murdoch tweeted: "Gerald Scarfe has never reflected the opinions of the Sunday Times.
(14) Tom Young, 63, a retired British Gas worker wearing a red tartan scarf, said Berwick was "the forgotten area of Northumberland".
(15) The lawyer said the fabric had been subject to the same processes and dyed the same colour as the red scarf sample previously tested.
(16) Andy McNab, in pink trousers, would tab past the tousled figure of Tom Stoppard, slipping in the back-door in his ankle-length woollen scarf.
(17) If you buy the scarf of the local football club, you will find that this too has changed its name – from Diyarbakirspor to Amedspor.
(18) Glitter, who is hard of hearing and was aided throughout the trial by two lip speaking interpreters, arrived at court each day in his trademark dark glasses and a variety of different coloured tailored jackets, patterned silk scarf and a felt or cossack hat.
(19) Bennett looks smart as ever today – orange scarf, navy blue pullover, light blue shirt, green tie, tan suede shoes, all beautifully colour-coordinated.
(20) As ever, we are immediately drawn into the old "is it antisemitic, isn't it antisemitic" routine – as if anybody could ever prove what actually goes on in Gerald Scarfe's head; and as if what goes on in his head is the most important thing in all of this.