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[ In the secund turbe was Maister Coradin. Rob. of Brunne, 1. 188. Alle the tour be of deuellis fleying in the ayer fledde backwarde. Golden Legend, fol. 24. ( Richardson Supp .) turba (ter'bä), n . [L., a crowd: see turbid , trou ble .] The chorus in medieval pa ion-plays, representing the Jewish populace. turban (ter bạn), n . [Early mod. E. also tur band , turbant , turbent , turribant , turban to = MD. turbant = G. Sw. Dan. turban , turban , tur bant , F. turban = Sp. Pg. Pg. It. turbante ; also in a more orig. form, early mod. E. tuliban , toll i ban, tulibant, to libant, tulip a pane = D. tulband, nd, tulpe, to libant, tulipant, tolipant, toli IMG:content-1073.png:[blocks in formation] turbid Old Cybele, arayd with pompous pride, Wearing a Diademe embattild wide With hundred turrets, like a Turribant . Spencer, F. Q., IV. xi. 28. Vpon his head was a tolipane with a sharpe end standing vpwards halfe a yard long, of rich cloth of golde. Hakluyt's Voyages, I. 346. They wrappe and fold together. almost as much linnen upon their heads as the Turks doe in those linnen caps they weare, which are called Turbents . Coryat, Crudities, I. 90. 2. A modification of the Oriental turban, worn by women in Europe and America during the first half of the nineteenth century. I was anxious to prevent her from disfiguring her small gentle mousey face with a great Saracen's-head turban . Mrs. Gaskell , Cranford, ix. 3. A head-dre consisting of a bright-colored handkerchief or square of cotton, worn by negro women in the West Indies and the southern United States. A black woman in blue cotton gown, red-and-yellow Madras turban , crouched against the wall. G. W. Cable, Au Large, i. 4. During the latter half of the nineteenth century, a hat consisting of a crown either without a brim or with a brim turned up close alongside the crown, worn by women and children.-5. In her ., a high rounded cap, supposed to be the official head-dre of the Sultan of Turkey: it is usually represented with plumes attached to its sides, with jeweled clasps, and the like. Also called Turkish crown.-6. In conch ., the spire of a univalve shell. See spire2 , 2, and uni valve (with cuts). - Mama mouch i turban, a kind of cap, made in supposed imitation of a Turkish turban: the name is taken from Molière's play "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme." IMG:content-1074.jpg:[graphic] Same as turban . turbandt (ter'band), n . turbaned (ter'band), a. [ turban + -ed2.] Wearing a turban. A malignant and a turban'd Turk Beat a Venetian. Shak., Othello, v. 2. 353. turban-shell (ter'ban-shel), n. The test or case of a sea-urchin.