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Topic: CLOTHES

Date: 1500-1600
Language: French
Origin: Italian turbante, from Turkish tülbend, from Persian dulband

turban

 noun
     
tur‧ban [countable]
DCC a long piece of cloth that you wind tightly round your head, worn by men in parts of North Africa and Southern Asia and sometimes by women as a fashion
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