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Encyclopedia Britannica



TURBAN

This article appears in Volume V27, Page 411 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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