Tur´bant

(tûr´bant)

A turban.

I see the Turk nodding with his turbant.

- Howell.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

References in periodicals archive

[...] Verba plane vim faciunt intellectui, & omnia turbant; & homines ad inanes, & innumeras Controuersias, & commenta, deducunt.' (24) His comments come at the end of a century in which intense attention was paid to linguistic matters.

Counterfet countenaunce: (mis)representation and the challenge to allegory in sixteenth-century morality plays

The personnel of Oberon's chapel likewise seem ludicrous: the officiating clergyman is a "little-Puppet-Priest" who "squeaks" at the congregation (91, 39-40) and who, instead of a bishop's mitre, wears "the Silk-worms shed / (Like a Turks Turbant on his head)" (93, 137-38).

The Politics of Fairylore in Early Modern English Literature [*]

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