Ancient form of female headdress.
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Examples for "headscarf "
Examples for "headscarf "
1 We need water, said Aziza, wearing a typically Kurdish dress and headscarf .
2 In 2004, all religious symbols including the headscarf were banned in schools.
3 She was wearing the headscarf and I said, 'I really don't care.
4 Fatima Nabil wore a cream-coloured headscarf as she read a news bulletin.
5 Rochelle turned on her heel, her paisley headscarf bobbing with her words.
1 The wimple covered the neck, and was worn chiefly out of doors.
2 She stopped short, drew her wimple round her face, and was gone.
3 Her long veil was more like a winding-sheet than a bride's wimple .
4 She smoothed her dark russet habit around her, fiddled with her wimple .
5 Insomuch that the close-plaited robe and the wimple were secure as a castle.
1 Her guimpe was never sufficiently opaque, and never ascended sufficiently high.
2 So the guimpe was brought, a lace guimpe with long, lace sleeves, and a high collared neck of lace.
3 It may be worn with a white guimpe as a change from the blue silk one that goes with it.
4 One caught a glimpse of a black guimpe , and a form that was barely defined, covered with a black shroud.
5 They are clothed in black, with a guimpe , which, in accordance with the express command of Saint-Benoît, mounts to the chin.
1 It's ever so much lower than my white dress, I always used to wear guimpes with dresses like this.
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