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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
headscarf
noun
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▪ A hog in a headscarf squealed as she cleaved its skull with her axe.
▪ Couldn't see, she was wearing a headscarf.
▪ Dawn Allenby was standing in her coat and headscarf staring at herself in the mirror.
▪ Her headscarf was already soaked through.
▪ She was dressed in traditional black with a headscarf pulled tight beneath her chin.
▪ The sea washed over her, swirling the headscarf into foam that was crimson already.
▪ There was now almost nothing flagrantly alien about her, apart from her headscarf.
▪ This woman with a red headscarf is looking at them and chatting to the man behind the stall.
Wiktionary
headscarf

alt. A more or less square piece of material worn over the head by women, often to protect the hair, or for religious reasons. n. A more or less square piece of material worn over the head by women, often to protect the hair, or for religious reasons.

WordNet
headscarf

n. a kerchief worn over the head and tied under the chin

Wikipedia
Headscarf

Headscarves or head scarves are scarves covering most or all of the top of a woman's hair and her head, leaving the face uncovered. Apart from the keffiyeh of the Middle East, headscarves worn by men are much less common and usually for practical purposes. Headscarves may be worn for a variety of purposes, such as protection of the head or hair from rain, wind, dirt, cold, warmth, for sanitation, for fashion, recognition or social distinction; with religious significance, to hide baldness, out of modesty, or other forms of social convention.

Usage examples of "headscarf".

At this stage, the Kansa tribe still wore Indian dress, headscarves and leather trousers.

Passengers had gathered on the deck, under shelter from the rain, the women bundled up with coats and headscarves, the men in thick clothes and hats, every face towards the shore.

To Kolya they looked like classic peasant stock, and their waistcoats and trousers, thick skirts and headscarves were the subject of stares from the Mongols.

They were colourfully dressed, and most were wearing hats or headscarves against the bright afternoon sun, but Telli could see reddish hair on several, showing under their headgear.

Screaming in panic, thrashing and spitting, casting away headscarves and weapons to run the faster, the bandits fled.

In subtle, unnoticeable stages, in ways that Russo could never quite recall, Nora had altered in three years of married life from a skinny, suntanned, nineteen-year-old nymphct, pretty and shy, into a talkative, opinionated, intolerant young housewife in a lurex headscarf and rollers, organizer of the local church social club, the La Mirada PTA, and a never-ending ten-ring circus of coffee-and-cake mornings, baby showers, and lectures by white-haired evangelists who stank of tobacco.

There were many women of the Queen's age seated at the formica tables, most of them headscarfed and wearing brooches pinned to their coats.

A couple of cars had halted at the pedestrian crossing and a woman in a headscarf was half-way across pushing a pram in front of her, a little girl of five or six trotting beside her.

It was Ilana Eytan all right, standing there at the stern rail in her sheepskin coat and a red headscarf.

It was a voice composed of tweeds, headscarves, summer pudding, hockey-sticks, thatched houses, saddle-soap, house--parties, nuns, family pews, large dogs and philistinism, and in spite of all her attempts to reduce its volume it was loud as a dinner-jacketed drunk throwing bread rolls in a Club.