Definition of Tulipant

1. a turban [n -S] - See also: turban

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tulipant

tulchans
tule
tules
tulgey
tuliokite
tulip
tulip-eared
tulip-shell
tulip bed
tulip gentian
tulip orchid
tulip poplar
tulip root
tulip tree
tulipanin
tulipant (current term)
tulipants
tulipist
tulipists
tuliplike
tulipmania
tulipomania
tulipomaniac
tulipomaniacs
tulips
tulipwood
tulipwood tree
tulipwoods
tulka
tulku

Literary usage of Tulipant

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Folk-Etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in by Abram Smythe Palmer (1882)
"The Ambassadeur standing up uncovered, the Persian King (frolick at that time, or rather in civility) took oft" his tulipant.—Sir Thai. Herbert, Travels, p. ..."

2. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"Their head-tire is a tulipant but differing, of Princes white and fine, ... Christians use not white nor round ones: the huge tulipant, round and blue, ..."

3. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"Their head-tire is a tulipant wreathen, rather long then round: of their ... and his Suffragan Bishops weare a huge tulipant, round and blue, with a blacke ..."

4. Persian Miniatures by Harrison Griswold Dwight (1917)
"pearl and diamonds; and on his head a tulipant according,"—ie a turban—"to the worth of two hundred pounds, his boots embroidered with pearl and rubies; ..."

5. Turkey by Stanley Lane-Poole, Elias John Wilkinson Gibb, Arthur Gilman (1899)
"... where upon his tomb lieth his soldier's cloak, with a little Turkish tulipant, much differing from those great turbans which the Turks now wear. ..."

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