tulipant

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkish tülbent (/⁠tylˈbænt⁠/), from Classical Persian دلبند (dulband), also the root of turban and tulip.

Noun

tulipant (plural tulipants)

  1. (obsolete) A turban.
    • 1634, T[homas] H[erbert], “Mount Taurus”, in A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC, page 112:
      A youth […] came to meete vs; apparrelled in a long Roabe of cloth of Gold, and on his head a Shaſh or Tulipant of Silke and Gold, […]
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