Word: turbaning
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Best of all, they liked the infrequent glimpses of her straight-backed figure, in long, lavender coat and jeweled turban, stalking through the rubble of wartime London with her inevitable, restless, prying umbrella, authoritative as a royal mace, or the sight of the old Queen pottering in & out of antique shops, slipping into the back row of suburban movie theaters, sweeping down Pall Mall in her towering automobile. "I think they call it a Daimler," she told a bemused G.I. to whom she gave a ride...
...Godiva in the Easter Parade--she wouldn't be without a chapeau to top her ensemble. Your red oilskins may go very well with rain, but you shouldn't be blind to the flattery the right shape can add; the sailor hat, the princesse, the cloche, the cartwheel, the turban, the coolie-surely one of these set off your face. Of course, if your desire softness and subtley, you can luxuriate in flowers, fruits feathers, wires fauna, flora, and rope...
...gallop in a rising cloud of dust is unforgettable. Stop a car along one of the lonely, untraveled roads of Kurdistan, and you're almost sure to attract such a visitor. He comes thundering down on you as though he were leading a cavalry charge. A tasseled turban flies above his fierce, lean face, and the wind turns his wide, baggy pants into balloons. A rifle is slung across his back, and from the sash about his waist there hangs a great, curved dagger. As he reins up, he scowls ferociously and you murmur "Salaam" or "Marhaba" in greeting...
...Delhi last month, the 500 members of India's Parliament prepared to go home. In the great olive green chamber, amid laughter, chatter and happy wishes for a pleasant vacation, hardly anyone noticed a strange, solitary figure in a yellow silk tunic and turban, slumped over his desk, weeping bitterly...
Instead of the frayed and buttonless clothes which he wears around the home palace grounds to save money, the miserly Nizam wore a well-pressed and spotless outfit-yellow turban, tweed coat, loose white trousers and black shoes. He peeled $1,000 off his own bundle (at least $200 million), laid in a supply of tea, cakes, nuts, ice cream, tomato juice and lemon squash, and gave an elegant garden party for New Delhi's 400, among them junketing Eleanor Roosevelt and India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. The Nizam gathered six sons and four daughters around...