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  • adjective Wearing a turban.

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Examples

  • Westergaard's depiction of a bomb-turbanned Muhammad, which he has said he drew in about 45 minutes, was one of a dozen published by Jyllands-Posten in 2005.

    Danish 'Muhammad' cartoonist Westergaard to retire 2010

  • The idea that there are such mediaeval characters in existence as a turbanned scowling Aliakbar, straight out of Sinbad the sailorman that one, indicates that the Modern world has really gone awry in its liberalism and tolerance.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • They've only gone and ditched the millionaire and so-called (can't be true) playboy Tony Lit for the leader of the Labour defectives, turbanned Sikh, and Khalistan nationalist Cllr Gulchuran Singh (bottom left).

    David Cameron's Conservatives: Yet Another Ealing Comedy 2008

  • The Ealing hotheads wanted to represent turbanned sikhs not just any old sikhs.

    Iain Dale: Twaddle on Smoking Reduction Moves 2008

  • In a cartoon by Glenn McCoy, a bearded, turbanned radical brandishing a bottle-bomb yells, "Ours is a peaceful religion-and we'll kill anyone who says otherwise!!"

    James Heffernan: When Will the Pope Apologize for the Long History of Christian Violence? 2008

  • The BBC London film interview with him was shot in a school playground, with turbanned Sikh school boys running around in the background.

    Councillor to be censured for speaking honestly 2007

  • In one corner lay a turbanned merchant, an obese man in his sixties whose naked stomach rolled over his pantaloons.

    Soul Learner_Tobsha 2006

  • The painting depicted a turbanned emperor languidly reclining in his boudoir, while, all about him, a bevy of voluptuous and entirely unclothed! young women—evidently the members of his private seraglio—were being savagely slaughtered by a crew of knife-wielding assassins.

    Nevermore Harold Schechter 1999

  • Other birds squabbled and gossipped in the fronds of a palm tree, an eagle rode the heating air high over our heads, a pair of lizards came out to bask on the rocks, and once I caught a glimpse of a turbanned head passing by on the track on the opposite rim of the wadi.

    O Jerusalem King, Laurie R. 1999

  • Other birds squabbled and gossipped in the fronds of a palm tree, an eagle rode the heating air high over our heads, a pair of lizards came out to bask on the rocks, and once I caught a glimpse of a turbanned head passing by on the track on the opposite rim of the wadi.

    O Jerusalem King, Laurie R. 1999

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