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[Fr. turbant, turban, tolo pan, turban, from Ital. turbante a turban, from Turk. tulbend, vulgar pron, of dulbend =a turban, from Pers. dulband, from Hind. dulband =a turban.) [TULIP.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. A wrapper worn round the head by Orientals. Turbans are an extremely ancient form of head covering, and consist of long pieces-sometimes several yards of fine linen, muslin, silk, taffeta, or fine woolen material, which is twisted and coiled round the head in a cushion-like form. They are worn by all cla es, both indoors and out of doors. In Turkey, turbans vary in size and material according to the occupation, rank, or country of the wearer. Learned men affect a full white tur. ban; the descendants of Mohammed always wear a dark-green turban, and the Christians of Lebanon wear a gracefully folded white turban. Some of the eastern peoples adopt striped, colored silks, with fringes, placing several fezzes, one over the other, making a cumbersome, conical mound, and round these they wrap silken scarves. In Turkey, the red fez, with a ta el of dark-blue silk, has been extensively adopted, especially among the upper cla es and on the sea-coasts. In India, the use of the turban is being rapidly discontinued by the higher cla es, who have adopted in its place a brimle cap, which is frequently enriched by embroidery of gold, silver, or silken threads on colored velvet. "And some had a piece of white of leather-colored cloth wound about the head like a small turban , which our people thought more becoming."-Cook: First Voy age , bk. i., ch. xx. *2. A kind of headdre worn by ladies. II. Zool.: The whole set of whorls of a shell. ( Good rich & Porter .)