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Turban

Arabs

mid-to-late 19th century

semibrocard

width 62,0; length 178,0

Turban is unsewn long piece of textile, wrapped over skull-cap. Turban was common through the Eats: from Egypt to India. Emergence of word “tulip” is associated with this headgear. In the middle ages tulip was the most favourite flower among ruling nobility in Turkey and Iran, it was often worn in turban folds. The Turkish word for a turban seems to have been used for the flower in western European because a fully opened tulip was thought to resemble a turban.Turkish tülbend, used as a name for the tulip, was borrowed into many languages of western Europe as the popularity of the tulipspread, including Russian that borrowed it from French

Ethnography of South and South-West Asia