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TURBAN

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 411 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TURBAN , the name of a particular See also:

form of See also:head-See also:dress worn by men of See also:Mahommedan races. The earlier forms of the word in See also:English are turbant, turband, and tolibant or tulipant, the latter showing that variant of the See also:original which survives in the name of the See also:flower, the See also:tulip. All these forms represent the See also:French See also:adaptation of the See also:Turkish tulbend, a vulgarism for dulbend, from See also:Persian dulband, a See also:sash or See also:scarf See also:wound See also:round the head. The Moslem turban is essentially a scarf of See also:silk, See also:fine See also:linen, See also:cotton or other material folded round the head, some-times, as in See also:Egypt, round the See also:tarbush or See also:close-fitting See also:felt cap; sometimes, as in See also:Afghanistan, round a conical cap; or, as among certain races in See also:India, round the See also:skull-cap or kullah. Races, professions, degrees of See also:rank, and the like vary in the See also:style of turban worn; distinctions being made in See also:size, methods of folding, and See also:colour and the like (see INDIA: See also:Costume). At the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th See also:century, a See also:species of head-dress somewhat resembling the true turban in outward, form was worn by ladies of western nations, chiefly for use indoors.

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