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Tur′ban.

An Oriental head-dress made of a cloth wound around the head. The shapes, materials, size, and mode of wearing vary much in different countries. In India it is a strip of cloth usually from 9 to 12 inches wide and from 5 to 25 yards long, but has been known to be a yard wide and 60 yards in length. The most common color there is white; next red, yellow, green, blue, black, buff, shot colors, and gray; of cotton, silk, and of printed colors.

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