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  • The other shows two ladies making up a bed, but they are both wearing very similar clothes and wearing turban-like headpiece, and I think they are maids.

    January Organizing and Housecleaning Linda 2008

  • Pearls and a turban-like swath of drapery adorn her hair.

    History of American Women Maggiemac 2009

  • The Madonna and child in a garden between 1450 and 1455 is markedly Flemish in style: from the Madonna's exaggerated high forehead and turban-like headdress to the exquisite details of the leaves of the fruit trees behind her and the grasses at her feet.

    Archive 2007-10-01 2007

  • My companions and the few other Westerners I see have largely switched to Tuareg turban-like headgear.

    Showtime in the Sahara Freston, Tom 2007

  • My companions and the few other Westerners I see have largely switched to Tuareg turban-like headgear.

    Showtime in the Sahara Freston, Tom 2007

  • The Madonna and child in a garden between 1450 and 1455 is markedly Flemish in style: from the Madonna's exaggerated high forehead and turban-like headdress to the exquisite details of the leaves of the fruit trees behind her and the grasses at her feet.

    The work of 15th-century Ferrarese artists reveals startling interpretations of religious themes and neo-medieval frivolities 2007

  • The boy is wearing some kind of weird, overblown turban-like affair that hangs off the back of his head like a sack that he's using to steal a watermelon.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

  • The boy is wearing some kind of weird, overblown turban-like affair that hangs off the back of his head like a sack that he's using to steal a watermelon.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

  • And the next thing after that, I was lying in cool sheets, in a soft bed, and a grave, dark-eyed girl, in a blue, turban-like cap, was bending over me.

    The White Mountains John Christopher 2003

  • She always wore the same turban-like cap, covering her head completely.

    The White Mountains John Christopher 2003

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