Meaning of turbanize | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To adorn with a turban.
2. To make more turban-like.
3. To convert to the wearing of turbans or, by extension, to increase the percentage of arabs in a population.
4. To improve efficiency by scraping off scale from steel alloy pipes.

Examples

“Lord, girl. What's happened to your hair. Nappy. Kinky. Turbanize it.”

“Among class- or status-conscious spectators in the Whitefriars Theater, might not Morose's transformation into a shop sign (perhaps just a few doors down from the theater on Fleet Street) get a bigger, or more mocking, laugh than the turbanized Morose earlier in the play?”

“As she walks, she dries her beautiful blonde hair. She turbanizes her head and snaps it back.”

“The most interesting point in these testimonies is that they saw that Goodarzi had an Amameh on his head, and wondered who could have turbanized him.”

“Soon after there arose a fashion of wearing an imitation of the turbanized hood, also called a bourrelet — a padded circlet covered with cloth, to which were attached what appeared to be the extremities of a hood.”

“Fashion attractions in bathing caps Peak demand is expected this year for the new bathing caps which have been turbanized, beflowered, polka dotted and otherwise glamorized as they never were before.”

“Pro hatbandys de serico negro [sic], ijs (1412-1413) is a far cry from A hat-bande with xviij gowlde buttons (1594), but the imaginative talent of the 14th century was concentrated on the possibilities of feathers and the "turbanizing" of the hood.”

“The farmer working in the fields has to fold back the thawb and "turbanize" the headscarf.”

“This Turkish procedure gave the Dutch and German pamphleteers a fine opportunity to raise a cry against the grand Turk of the French and turbanized France, who learned their manners from their good friends the miscreants.”

“Who turbanized America, who lives in a stable with blood-red walls and a green-blue ceiling, whose articles and Music at Midnight have made even more stir than the remarkable taste of her interior decorating, who talks more delightfully than almost any one in New York.”

“The reason for which this terror of the Turks allowed himself, in the expression of a pamphleteer writing somewhat later, to be turbanized in this way, was his appreciation of the great advantages to be gained from the acquisition of the East Prussian seaboard.”

“A pamphlet, widely distributed a bit later in all Europe, reproaches him severely for 'turbanizing' France.”

“The showing made by this swift water bug so impressed the Admiralty that they took steps to turbanize the British navy.”

“Rotary driven steel scrapers are normally employed to remove loose scale from C or low alloy steel pipe that has been hot bent. This method is called turbanizing.”

“6) Substitution of dieselized for turbanized power.”

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