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👳 Wearing a turban 🏛️ Covered with cloth
turbanned

turbanned

1 7.1
Wearing a cloth wrapped around the head
  • adjective
  • /ˈtɜːrbənd/
translation icon : turbante
  • And say, besides... ...that in Aleppo once... ...where a malignant and a turbanned Turk... ...beat a Venetian... ...and traduced the state... ...I took by the throat... ...the circumcised dog... ...and smote him... ...thus.

Examples

  • Wilson contrasts these turbanned and elegant Moors of yesteryear with today's Africans in Venice, who look like all hip global youth, in a wall of telling photographic details.

    Academic text (2003)

  • The turbanned man offered us a warm smile as he welcomed us to the festival.

  • In the marketplace, many turbanned individuals were selling traditional clothing.

  • He noticed a turbanned figure emerging from the crowd during the celebration.

Synonyms

turbaned
vsturbanned
1 6.5

Someone who wears a cloth wrapped around the head

means the same but uses a different spelling

Surface Forms

turbanned positive

Morphology

turbanned = turban (transparent) = turban + ed

Formed by the noun 'turban' plus the adjectival/past-participial suffix '-ed', meaning 'having or wearing a turban', which is directly inferable.

Etymology

The word turbanned comes from turban, a word from Persian and Turkish for a long cloth you 'wrap' around the head. So a turbanned person is simply someone who is 'wrapped' in a turban and is wearing one.