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headscarf (plural headscarves or headscarfs)

1. A more or less square piece of material worn over the head, typically by women, often to protect the hair, or for religious reasons.

   Synonym: headsquare

   As far as only the Quran itself is concerned, wearing a headscarf is neither required nor prohibited.

   • 1998 October 29, Stephen Kinzer, “Safranbolu Journal; The Alarming Scarf and Other Turkish Worries”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     But as Ms. Eran adjusted her resplendent costume, two young women wearing traditional headscarfs walked across the plaza nearby.

   • 2012, Hilal Elver, The Headscarf Controversy: Secularism and Freedom of Religion, page 52:

     The headscarf is a perfect tool to block the nonmoderns from participating in the class privileges that the modern state represents.

   • 2015, Ashok Som, Christian Blanckaert, The Road To Luxury:

     By the early 1980s, Gucci was overlicensed, with its logo on every product imaginable from headscarves to key rings to lighters.

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