turbanedadj.
/ˈtəːbənd/ a. Wearing a turban.
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society > faith > sect > non-Christian religions > Islam > [adjective]
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing headgear > wearing a turban
turbaned1591
tulipanted1634
turban-crested1894
1591 King James VI & I Lepanto 10 Circumsised Turband Turkes.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) v. ii. 362 A Malignant and a Turband Turke, Beate a Venetian. View more context for this quotation
a1649 W. Drummond Poems (1656) 170 Though turban'd Princes for a Badge her weare.
1802 R. Southey La Caba 67 Moor! turbaned misbeliever! renegade! Circumcised traitor!
1817 W. Scott Harold iii. vi. 87 The turban'd race of Termagaunt.
1895 W. Wright Palmyra & Zenobia xxv. 296 The old green-turbaned keeper of the Mosque.
1968 T. Stoppard Real Inspector Hound (1970) 12 Mrs. Drudge is the char, middle-aged, turbanned.
1976 G. S. Cox in M. Drabble Genius of Thomas Hardy iii. 172 A turbanned Indian.
b. Of a Muslim tombstone: Surmounted by a carved turban.
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the world > life > death > obsequies > monument > [adjective] > specific shape of monument
turbaned1835
1835 N. P. Willis Pencillings II. xlvi. 60 Its small dark cemetery of cypressed and turbaned head-stones.
1876 A. J. Evans Through Bosnia iii. 93 A Turkish graveyard, with the usual turbaned tombstones—some of the turbans of majestic height.
c. Arranged to form a turban. (In quot. 1924, transferred) poetic. rare.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [adjective] > spiral or helical
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turbaned1924
spiralized1928
spiralizing1977
1924 E. Sitwell Sleeping Beauty vi. 28 The..shore Where curled and turbanned waves sigh ‘Nevermore’.
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