Noun: headscarf
| Singular | headscarf |
| Plural | headscarves; headscarfs |
Sample Sentences
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As far as only the Quran itself is concerned, wearing a headscarf is neither required nor prohibited.
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But as Ms. Eran adjusted her resplendent costume, two young women wearing traditional headscarfs walked across the plaza nearby. [1998 October 29, Stephen Kinzer, “Safranbolu Journal; The Alarming Scarf and Other Turkish Worries”, in The New York Times:]
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The headscarf is a perfect tool to block the nonmoderns from participating in the class privileges that the modern state represents. [2012, Hilal Elver, The Headscarf Controversy: Secularism and Freedom of Religion, page 52:]
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By the early 1980s, Gucci was overlicensed, with its logo on every product imaginable from headscarves to key rings to lighters. [2015, Ashok Som, Christian Blanckaert, The Road To Luxury:]
Nouns inflected like headscarf
Mobius scarf,
Moebius scarf,
head-scarf,
Palestinian scarf,
head scarf,
presheaf,
moebius scarf,
government wharf,
doorleaf,
bloodleaf,
capsheaf,
mobius scarf,
theif,
theef,
wharf,
scarf,
shelf,
sheaf,
headscarf,
cloven hoof, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. substratebor.?
3. Proto-Indo-European *kap-?
4. Proto-Indo-European *kap-
5. Proto-Indo-European *káput
6. Proto-Germanic *haubudą
7. Old English hēafod
8. Middle English heed
9. English head
10. English scarf
11. English headscarf
12. From head + scarf.