What is "turbans"

Usage examples of "turbans".

There were even a few turbans and robes mostly Druses, but including some of the Faithful.

Richard, looking around on wild forms with their persons covered with haiks, their countenance swart with the sunbeams, their teeth as white as ivory, their black eyes glancing with fierce and preternatural lustre from under the shade of their turbans, and their dress being in general simple even to meanness.

Crusaders of different nations, white turbans and long pikes, announcing the presence of armed Saracens, and the huge deformed heads of several camels or dromedaries, overlooking the multitude by aid of their long, disproportioned necks.

Queen and her attendants are leaving their gallery--and see, the turbans sink on the ground, as if struck down by a destroying angel.

Stern, unforgiving faces regarded him from beneath both turbans and bristling black beards.

The resting regiment had stirred at the sudden fusillade, and some men retrieved their rifles from the stacks, but most just cursed for being half woken up, pulled the turbans over their eyes again, and tried to go back to sleep.

At the head of the throng was a wave front of four-armed dwarfs in gaudy puffed costumes and turbans like fat pretzels.

They were three beetle-browed men in dun-colored tunics and the red-checkered turbans of Sabians.

Two men in black robes and flat turbans sat to one side, contributing nothing to the discussion.