Definition of "headscarf" []

• A scarf worn over or around the head, often folded and tied. (noun)

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• "A third photo shows a soldier posing in what appears to be a Palestinian kitchen where a women wearing a headscarf is cooking."
• "Heba Abbasi, 31, a faithful young Muslim in her snug black headscarf, is a Chicago inner-city public school teacher, a fitness trainer, a Palestinian-American wife with an equally observant mosque-going Indian-American husband."
• "On the one hand, the Directorate promotes the idea that the headscarf is a religious obligation."