TURBAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does turban mean? 

• TURBAN (noun)
  The noun TURBAN has 2 senses:

1. a traditional Muslim headdress consisting of a long scarf wrapped around the head

2. a small round woman's hat

  Familiarity information: TURBAN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TURBAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A traditional Muslim headdress consisting of a long scarf wrapped around the head

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("turban" is a kind of...):

headdress; headgear (clothing for the head)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A small round woman's hat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

pillbox; toque; turban

Hypernyms ("turban" is a kind of...):

millinery; woman's hat (hats for women; the wares sold by a milliner)

 Context examples 

Seated on the carpet, by the side of this basin, was seen Mr. Rochester, costumed in shawls, with a turban on his head.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Anne Mitchell had tried to put on a turban like mine, as I wore it the week before at the concert, but made wretched work of it—it happened to become my odd face, I believe, at least Tilney told me so at the time, and said every eye was upon me; but he is the last man whose word I would take.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

So busy was she on this day that she did not hear Laurie's ring nor see his face peeping in at her as she gravely promenaded to and fro, flirting her fan and tossing her head, on which she wore a great pink turban, contrasting oddly with her blue brocade dress and yellow quilted petticoat.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"I will tell you in your private ear," replied she, wagging her turban three times with portentous significancy.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A crimson velvet robe, and a shawl turban of some gold-wrought Indian fabric, invested her (I suppose she thought) with a truly imperial dignity.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Above the temples, amidst wreathed turban folds of black drapery, vague in its character and consistency as cloud, gleamed a ring of white flame, gemmed with sparkles of a more lurid tinge.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The Ladies Lynn and Ingram continued to consort in solemn conferences, where they nodded their two turbans at each other, and held up their four hands in confronting gestures of surprise, or mystery, or horror, according to the theme on which their gossip ran, like a pair of magnified puppets.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)