turbanizing

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
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
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
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