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The word 'headscarf' is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to a piece of fabric that is worn around the head to cover the hair or neck. Example: She wore a colorful headscarf to protect her hair from the strong winds.
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headscarf
noun
A more or less square piece of material worn over the head, typically by women, often to protect the hair, or for religious reasons.
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I had always worn my headscarf in a wrap style, but after that we all started to wear them in a traditional hijab way.
Still, at primary school the worst thing that would happen is maybe someone would pull off your headscarf.
The woman from Moss Side who wears a headscarf and has become an astrophysicist or whatever is not sexy because it doesn't fit that dominant narrative".
We have good healthcare, and women can go to school and university with a headscarf.
Bishop followed local requirements legislating that women must cover their heads, wearing both a headscarf and a hat upon her arrival in the country.
At this point, they will surrender their civilian clothes and exchange them for the blue or grey serge prison uniform and headscarf that has to be worn at all times of the day.
But I have always defended the right of women to wear a headscarf, the right to practise one's religion freely.
The foreign minister, Julie Bishop, should have "stood up for western values" and shunned the Islamic headscarf during a recent visit to Iran, conservative commentator Andrew Bolt said.
A fellow Palestinian named Mohammed, sitting next to her wearing a black-and-white headscarf, gave a bitter smile.
But still, even as the morality police units grew in number, manteaus continued to grow progressively shorter and tighter, sleeves shrank, and a new technique emerged to hang the headscarf on a small, pointy bun on the back of women's heads.
We're both enraptured by the unfolding squabble between a woman in a conservative getup, excepting the red-streaked hair just peaking out from underneath her black headscarf, and the chador-cloaked morality police officer accosting her.
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