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- adjective Without a
turban .
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Examples
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They were men and women, the sufferers, before they were Mahometans, and when they rise turbanless from the grave, in what except their good or evil actions will they be the better or worse than we?
I.10 1826
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They were men and women, the sufferers, before they were Mahometans, and when they rise turbanless from the grave, in what except their good or evil actions will they be the better or worse than we?
The Last Man 2003
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He was turbanless, shoeless, caked with dirt, and all but dead with rough handling.
The Man Who Was 1907
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It was Wali Dad, Agnostic and Unbeliever, shoeless, turbanless, and frothing at the mouth, the flesh on his chest bruised and bleeding from the vehemence with which he had smitten himself.
Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900
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A policeman -- turbanless and fast asleep -- lies across the road on the way to the Mosque of Wazir Khan.
Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900
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I looked at a withered skeleton, turbanless and almost naked, with long matted hair and deep-set codfish-eyes.
Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900
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He was turbanless, shoeless, caked with dirt, and all but dead with rough handling.
Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900
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It was Wali Dad, Agnostic and Unbeliever, shoeless, turbanless, and frothing at the mouth, the flesh on his chest bruised and bleeding from the vehemence with which he had smitten himself.
Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900
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He was turbanless, shoeless, caked with dirt, and all but dead with rough handling.
Soldier Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900
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It consisted of only a few open sheds, in one of which, seated on a mud-built divan, cross-legged and turbanless like a row of tumbler mandarins, we saw five of our sailors under the hands of the Luxor barber.
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