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headcloth
[ hed-klawth, -kloth ]
noun
plural headcloths
- any cloth for covering the head, as a turban or wimple.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of headcloth1
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When I can remember to be a good Congolese wife, I tie it up in a headcloth.
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The cabin door opened and Dilsey emerged, again in the maroon cape and the purple gown, and wearing soiled white elbow-length gloves and minus her headcloth now.
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Most of the knots fixed that morning had loosened under her headcloth and were now cupfuls of soft wool her fingers thrilled to.
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And the carpenter's wife in the Miller's Tale wears something called a "voluper" which seems to have been a white headcloth with tapes attached.
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Millicent Wanjiku Kuria, a middle-aged widow, beams under an orange headcloth.
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