turbaned, a.
(ˈtɜːbənd)
Also turbanned.
[f. turban n. + -ed2.]
a. Wearing a turban.
| 1591 Jas. I Lepanto 10 Circumsised Turband Turkes. 1604 Shakes. Oth. v. ii. 353 A malignant, and a Turbond-Turke Beate a Venetian. a 1649 Drummond of Hawthornden Poems 170 Though turban'd Princes for a Badge her weare. 1802 Southey La Caba 67 Moor! turbaned misbeliever! renegade! Circumcised traitor! 1817 Scott Harold iii. vi, The turban'd race of Termagaunt. 1895 W. Wright Palmyra & Zenobia xxv. 296 The old green-turbaned keeper of the Mosque. 1968 T. Stoppard Real Inspector Hound (1970) 12 Mrs. Drudge is the char, middle-aged, turbanned. 1976 G. S. Cox in M. Drabble Genius of Thomas Hardy iii. 172 A turbanned Indian. |
b. Of a Muslim tombstone: Surmounted by a carved turban.
| 1835 Willis Pencillings II. xlvi. 60 Its small dark cemetery of cypressed and turbaned head-stones. 1876 A. J. Evans Through Bosnia iii. 93 A Turkish graveyard, with the usual turbaned tombstones—some of the turbans of majestic height. |
c. Arranged to form a turban. (In quot., transf.) poet. rare.
| 1924 E. Sitwell Sleeping Beauty vi. 28 The..shore Where curled and turbanned waves sigh ‘Nevermore’. |