Turbanize

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb

1
To adorn with a turban.
"Lord, girl. What's happened to your hair. Nappy. Kinky. Turbanize it."
2
To make more turban-like.
"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."
3
To convert to the wearing of turbans or, by extension, to increase the percentage of arabs in a population.
"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."
4
To improve efficiency by scraping off scale from steel alloy pipes.
"The showing made by this swift water bug so impressed the Admiralty that they took steps to turbanize the British navy."

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

From turban + -ize.