What is "headscarves"

Usage examples of "headscarves".

However, Guthrie Featherstone was a tall man, with a good calf in a silk stocking, and he took with him Marigold, his lady wife, who was young enough, and I suppose pretty enough, for Henry our junior clerk to eye wistfully, although she had the sort of voice that puts me instantly in mind of headscarves and gymkhanas, that high pitched nasal whining which a girl learns from too much contact with the saddle when young, and too little with the Timsons of this world in later life.

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.