underscarf

plural underscarfs · plural underscarves

1. A tight-fitting headscarf, usually elasticized, that is worn under a hijab or overscarf.

   White and crisp and full, but pinned over an underscarf, and this underscarf was decorated with lace.

   2010, Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, In Search of Islamic Feminism, page 368

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   She pays much attention to wearing matching headscarves, but does not like the style that many younger Turkish girls have adopted, who use underscarves and other materials to produce a high and voluminous head shape.

   2015, Edward E. Curtis, The Bloomsbury Reader on Islam in the West

   Women with a Turkish background, on the other hand, have begun to wear more than square silk headscarfs; they now also use long pashmina shawls combined with underscarfs in contrasting colours (TB 2011-13, p.8).

   2021, Juliane Kanitz, The Headscarf as a Business Card, page 191

   Synonyms: undercap