mandil

plural mandils · alternative mundil

1. historicalchiefly PersiaA turban; cloth used to make a turban.

   [T]he Mandíl is used by officers in the army, and is a muslin turban with gold stripes, spots, and ends.

   1874, H[enry] H[ardy] Cole, “Textile Fabrics”, in Catalogue of the Objects of Indian Art Exhibited in the South Kensington Museum […], London: Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswode, […] [a]nd sold by Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 243

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   His turban, or mandil [mandīl], was of finest white silk interwoven with gold, bestudded with pearl[s] and carbuncles; [...]

   1634, Thomas Herbert, A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. Into Afrique and the Greater Asia, especially the Territories of the Persian Monarchie: And some Parts of the Orientall Indies, and Iles Adiacent. […], London: Printed by William Stansby, and Iacob Bloome, →OCLC; republished as William Foster, editor, Travels in Persia 1627–1629. Abridged and Edited by Sir William Foster … with an Introduction and Notes (Broadway Travellers), London: G[eorge] Routledge & Sons, 1928, →OCLC, page 79

   MANDIL, the Name of a Cap or Turban wore by the Perſians. The Mandil is formed, by firſt wrapping round the Head a Piece of fine white Linen five or six Ells long; over this they wrap, in the ſame manner, a Piece of Silk of the ſame Length, and oftentimes of great Value. To make the Mandil genteel, Care muſt be taken, that in wrapping the Silk, it be ſo managed, as that the ſeveral Colours, found in the ſeveral Folds, make a kind of Waves, ſomewhat like what we see in marbled Paper.

   1728, E[phraim] Chambers, “MANDIL”, in Cyclopædia: Or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; […] In Two Volumes, volumes II (I–Z), London: […] James and John Knapton [et al.], →OCLC, page 492, column 2

   Two inhabitants of the country on either side of the cartouche [of a map] represent the native population. On the left, a moustachioed nobleman, wearing a cloak and mandil (turban) grasps the cartouche with his right hand, and with his left holds up a bowl.

   2015, Willem Floor, Edmund Herzig, editors, Iran and the World in the Safavid Age (International Library of Iranian Studies; 2), London; New York, N.Y.: I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd. in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation, →ISBN, page 296