(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.