sarpech

plural sarpeches · alternative sarpesh · alternative serpech · alternative serpeych · alternative serpesh · alternative sirpeach · alternative surpaish

1. An ornament placed in front of the turban, worn by significant Hindu, Sikh and Muslim princes.

   The Marathas made reciprocal presents of a ‘horse and sarpech to all leading members of the English settlement’.

   1992, The Quarterly Journal of the Mythic Society, volumes 83–84, page 212

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   They had brought two pairs of shawls and three sarpeches for Ranjit Singh and one pair of shawls for Tara Singh Gheba.

   1996, M. L. Ahluwalia, Land Marks in Sikh History: A Fully Researched and Documented History: 1699–1947, New Delhi: Ashoka International Publishers, page 58

   It was a pear-shaped, pinkish-red stone drilled through with a gold pin and with a gold ring at the top (Fig 1). It was Mughal, and from the notes it was evident that it was a sarpech, or turban ornament.

   2000, Country Life, volume 194, page 148

   Synonyms: jigha