(n.) A covering or ornament for the head; a headtire.
(n.) A manner of dressing the hair or of adorning it, whether with or without a veil, ribbons, combs, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Glastonbury has agreed to restrict the sale of Native American-style headdresses at their 2015 event.
(2) Saira, one of his several targets, is petite, though the wedge sandals and feather headdress may mislead at first.
(3) The Glastonbury website has since listed “Indian headdresses”, alongside cigarettes, candle flares and flags as items not to be sold in its traders section “without prior authorisation or discussion with the markets’ management”.
(4) She had a strong physical presence - reinforced by a variety of African headdresses and garments - a booming voice and laughed a lot.
(5) His recent discoveries include The Fabulus Of Unicorns , a troop of apparently polyamorous performers in horned headdresses, who are also one of the acts appearing at Guilty Pleasures’ newest venture, The Mighty Hoop-La , a festivalesque weekender that’s bringing some dazzle and dancing to Bognor Regis at the end of February.
(6) I think we all feel a huge sense of responsibility to do the right thing by him.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bird’s nest headdress with Swarovski gemstones.
(7) If somebody came to me today – provided they weren’t wearing Arab headdress – and said the approach was on behalf of News Corp and … they wanted an ethical lawyer to come in and check they weren’t doing anything wrong, and there was a £5m sign-up fee, I’d probably do due diligence.” In July, Mahmood was suspended by the News of the World’s replacement title, the Sun on Sunday, owned by News UK, following the collapse of a trial involving the singer and former X-Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos .
(8) All three men are wearing traditional ghoutra headdresses and flowing robes.
(9) The clothes – a wedding headdress like an amphibian mating display, scarlet armour striated with sinews – were certainly more dramatic than the actors, and won Ishioka an Oscar.
(10) Dressed in a white dress trimmed with gold and a sparkling gold headdress, she sang her intro numbers with her knees bent and her head thrown back, undulating her crotch in a circular motion at the audience.
(11) But on Wednesday Ipso ruled that in the context of the attack, MacKenzie had a right to question Manji’s headdress under free speech.
(12) Stone is painted black in four of the pictures; in all she is styled to look suitably "ethnic", with accessories including a silk fringed headscarf and a black feathered headdress, just in case the message of black skin equals exotic otherness was too subtle.
(13) The headdress, rather than the dress covering the body, is special to the sufis; it is a long hat made to resemble the male generative organ.
(14) This article was amended on 15 October to correct the fact that headdresses may not be sold “without prior authorisation or discussion with the markets’ management” rather than banning the headdress from sale altogether.
(15) That melodramatic, all-over-the-shop approach to vocal melody just screamed “hippy” at me, and seemed to be the aural equivalent of shawls, beads, headdresses and candles, all of which I suspected Kate Bush was wearing or surrounded by while she recorded the vocal.
(16) Although it is only one UK festival, I hope that if we spread the news of Glastonbury’s decision online, positive discussions about the stereotyping of Native Americans and the headdress will grow in the UK and elsewhere.” Despite this concession, the festival has not followed all of the suggestions in Round’s petition: he also called on organisers to make “an official statement about the issue”, broaching a conversation that could “foster understanding and facilitate positive shifts in attitudes”.
(17) "We asked for a shabono , [a traditional gathering place for Venezuela's indigenous Yanomami] and we got a football stadium that not only looks like a shabono but has a rooftop that is inspired by the traditional penacho [headdress]," said Rodríguez of the 55,000-seat venue with sliding yellow, blue and red panels.
(18) One by one, the tribal leaders of the Brazilian Xingu took to their feet, wearing yellow and red feather headdresses and clutching thick wooden clubs and spears.
(19) When she reappears, she wears the traditional headdress which symbolises that a girl is now recognised as a woman.
(20) • Morning Gloryville is monthly at Oval Space, London, 24 February (tickets from £16) , morninggloryville.com Savage Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Yiannis Mouzakitis Not so long ago you could go to any number of nights in London and come across remarkably dressed club creatures in face paint, DIY headdresses, Spandex jumpsuits, household items – anything as long as it was somehow fabulous and Leigh Bowery would have approved.
Turban
Definition:
(n.) A headdress worn by men in the Levant and by most Mohammedans of the male sex, consisting of a cap, and a sash, scarf, or shawl, usually of cotton or linen, wound about the cap, and sometimes hanging down the neck.
(n.) A kind of headdress worn by women.
(n.) The whole set of whorls of a spiral shell.
Example Sentences:
(1) A turban dressing is used on the scrotum for 24 hours, and the patient is discharged with oral pain medication.
(2) Batmanghelidjh arrived in a black cab, dressed in her signature bright clothing and elaborate turban, to offer words of thanks and support to the crowd.
(3) The looks were set off by dashing turbans, decorative headscarves, and prim chignons for the unveiled.
(4) In March this year in the US, a letter was sent to a Sikh family – addressed to the "Turban Family" – claiming to know they had links to the Taliban.
(5) 3.46pm: This appears to show photographic proof that Karoubi was indeed roughed-up and that his turban was knocked off.
(6) One drawing depicted the Muhammad wearing a turban shaped as a bomb with a burning fuse, while in another he wielded a sword.
(7) Otherwise his appearance – in a white tunic and turban - was quite neat, in stark contrast to the saggy white undershirt he wore in photographs taken after his capture during a raid in Pakistan in March 2003.
(8) But perhaps the most arresting installation of all is sitting on the sofa next to Hirst in the form of Camila Batmanghelidjh , founder and director of Kids Company , swathed in a bright crimson printed cloak and matching turban, with fluorescent yellow Crocs on her feet.
(9) After the ruling was announced, men in suits, straw hats or turbans, many brandishing traditional fly-whisks, and women in headscarves and colourful dresses danced around the garden behind the headquarters of the KHRC.
(10) Likewise, a fifth thought that an employer should be able to insist a Sikh man take off his turban at work, and 15% believed that a Christian woman should take off her crucifix.
(11) With her bright turbans and dazzling charisma, Batmanghelidjh is a colossally successful networker and fundraiser.
(12) Two men, both bearded and wearing the trademark thick-coiled black turban, were sitting in the shade behind a friend's workshop.
(13) We present an unusual case of massive dermal cylindroma (turban tumor), occupying the entire scalpand forehead.
(14) It is for the defenders, not the invaders," Harnam Singh told the Guardian, sitting in an alcove near the shrine, surrounded by seminary students in white robes and orange or blue turbans.
(15) Hojjatoleslam Ebrahim Raeisi, in black turban, with Ayatollah Jannati Raeisi, who holds the clerical rank of hojjatoleslam, is a different character.
(16) I immediately went out to see and when I opened my door, a turbaned man pointed a gun at me and told me go back inside."
(17) The sight of black--turbaned men holding forth on plans for the Islamic Emirate brought memories of the 1990s flooding back for many.
(18) That scuttled the process, but dramatic pictures of men in black turbans giving a press conference like members of a government-in-exile were already bouncing around the internet.
(19) She would write to him that she once spotted him at the ballet without knowing his identity - “you had a turban on and I think I thought you had been born in it”.
(20) As a student I was the first American Sikh to play for the National Collegiate Athletic Association in a turban.