turbaned

Examples

• All

• Servants sprang up like mushrooms after a rain: turbaned Sikhs with appropriately somber faces, houseboys in white, and ladies-in-waiting with dark staring eyes.

  Fiction book (1992)

• The turbaned lady said, "Well, at last, at last."

  Fiction book (1997)

• The driver was a turbaned Sikh.

  Fiction book (2000)

• The turbaned man introduced himself as Achmed Ali.

  Fiction book (1991)

• At one table sat the turbaned old woman with the lorgnette who had steered him toward the light.

  Fiction book (1997)

• We sit up and rub our eyes, and we find ourselves floating through a bazaar amid turbaned men, veiled women, and grinning children.

  Fiction book (2000)

• He stared at the turbaned back of the seething driver's head, reasoning away his discomfort.

  Fiction book (2001)

• A tall, turbaned man in a white and gilt uniform, long mustaches waxed, obsequiously opened the Padmini's squeaky door.

  Fiction book (1992)

• The turbaned man stood proudly at the front of the parade, waving to the crowd.

• In the small village, turbaned individuals gathered to celebrate the annual festival.

Synonyms

H

hatted

vsturbaned

3 5.8

Wearing a hat, often a particular kind

is a wrapped cloth worn on the head rather than a shaped head covering

T

turbanned

vsturbaned

1 7.1

Wearing a cloth wrapped around the head

is the same meaning but spelled without the extra letter

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology