gaung baung

Borrowed from Burmese ခေါင်းပေါင်း (hkaung:paung:).

gaung baung (plural gaung baungs)

1. A traditional Burmese turban.
   • 1934, George Orwell, chapter 21, in Burmese Days‎:

     By the far bank a knot of men, one of them wearing a green gaungbaung, were waiting beside a sampan.

   • 1955 January 11, “Neutral but Nice”, in Time:

     Maneuvering amid the personalities and protocol of sticky Washington last week was an open-faced, roundly smiling, improbable-looking man in a gaung baung (gauze turbanlike cap with side bow) […]

   • 1974, Maung Maung, To a Soldier Son‎, Sarpay Beikman, page 11:

     On formal occasions college students would wear the gaungbaung. "The B.A. beau sauntering down the streets, walking-stick in hand and gaungbaung on his head," was the theme of a popular song in those days.

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