1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
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 lurbant, turband, and tolibant or lulipant, 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 f…
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