turban

A headdress consisting of a long piece of cloth wound around a small cap or directly around the head, traditionally worn in North Africa, the Near East, and Central and South Asia.

A woman’s close-fitting hat that consists of material wound around a small inner cap.

The distinctive head-dress of men of the Moslem nations, consisting of a scarf or shawl wound around the tarboosh.

A modification of the Oriental turban, worn by women in Europe and America during the first half of the nineteenth century.