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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   An article of headwear in the form of a piece of cloth of any convenient shape, such as a scarf, a strip, a triangle, or a square, variously secured, typically by knotting.

   "On her head was the usual three-cornered headwrap, which in the hands of the negress becomes a turban."

Example

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"On her head was the usual three-cornered headwrap, which in the hands of the negress becomes a turban."

Etymology

From head + wrap.

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