turbanize

Verb

turbanize (third-person singular simple present turbanizes, present participle turbanizing, simple past and past participle turbanized)

1. To adorn with a turban.
   • Lord, girl. What's happened to your hair. Nappy. Kinky. Turbanize it.2006, John Edgar Wideman, God's Gym: Stories, →ISBN
   • Among class- or status-conscious spectators in the Whitefriars Theater, might not Morose's transformation into a shop sign (perhaps just a few doors down from the theater on Fleet Street) get a bigger, or more mocking, laugh than the turbanized Morose earlier in the play?2007, Susan Zimmerman, Garrett Sullivan, Linda Neiberg, Shakespeare Studies - Volume 35, →ISBN, page 33
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.1905, Ecclesiological Society, Transactions - Volume 5, page xli
   • Fashion attractions in bathing caps Peak demand is expected this year for the new bathing caps which have been turbanized, beflowered, polka dotted and otherwise glamorized as they never were before.1950, Department Store Economist - Volume 13, page 77
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.1865, Henri Martin, Mary Louise Booth, Martin's History of France: The Age of Louis XIV - Volume 2, page 20
   • Who turbanized America, who lives in a stable with blood-red walls and a green-blue ceiling, whose articles and Music at Midnight have made even more stir than the remarkable taste of her interior decorating, who talks more delightfully than almost any one in New York.1929, Muriel Draper, “It Happens”, in Morrow's Almanack for the Year of Our Lord, page 128
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.1934, Illinois Engineer, page 189
   • Rotary driven steel scrapers are normally employed to remove loose scale from C or low alloy steel pipe that has been hot bent. This method is called turbanizing.1965, Corrosion Abstracts - Volume 4, page 71