A long strip of cloth wound round the head (especially as worn by African women).(noun)
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Use "headwrap" in a sentence
"A headwrap is a long piece of cloth that women tie and tuck on their head to create different looks."
"Packed what I need for the recycled sari silk wrap currently in progress and the fingering-weight version of this shawl (variegated honey-colored merino), and this headwrap (to use up the leftover yarn from the wrap I finished last week) and this scarf (the variegated purple angora/polwarth I got at the NH sheep & wool festival)."
"So when I'm on row #ohmygodsisitalmostover? of the shawl, I can pick up the headwrap."