Meaning

To adorn with a turban..

Definitions by Sense

1. To adorn with a turban.
2. To make more turban-like.
3. To convert to the wearing of turbans or, by extension, to increase the percentage of arabs in a population.
4. To improve efficiency by scraping off scale from steel alloy pipes.

Example Sentences

Lord, girl. What's happened to your hair. Nappy. Kinky. Turbanize it.

Among class- or status-conscious spectators in the Whitefriars Theater, might not Morose's transformation into a shop sign (perhaps just a few doors down from the theater on Fleet Street) get a bigger, or more mocking, laugh than the turbanized Morose earlier in the play?

As she walks, she dries her beautiful blonde hair. She turbanizes her head and snaps it back.

The most interesting point in these testimonies is that they saw that Goodarzi had an Amameh on his head, and wondered who could have turbanized him.

Soon after there arose a fashion of wearing an imitation of the turbanized hood, also called a bourrelet — a padded circlet covered with cloth, to which were attached what appeared to be the extremities of a hood.

Fashion attractions in bathing caps Peak demand is expected this year for the new bathing caps which have been turbanized, beflowered, polka dotted and otherwise glamorized as they never were before.

Pro hatbandys de serico negro [sic], ijs (1412-1413) is a far cry from A hat-bande with xviij gowlde buttons (1594), but the imaginative talent of the 14th century was concentrated on the possibilities of feathers and the "turbanizing" of the hood.

The farmer working in the fields has to fold back the thawb and "turbanize" the headscarf.

Word Forms

• turbanizes
• turbanizing
• turbanized

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When Should You Use Turbanize?

Use turbanize when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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