turbanize

verb4

1. •
   To adorn with a turban.

   • Lord, girl. What's happened to your hair. Nappy. Kinky. Turbanize it. — 2006
2. •
   To make more turban-like.

   • Fashion attractions in bathing caps Peak demand is expected this year for the new bathing caps which have been turbanized, beflowered, polka dotted and otherwise glamorized as they never were before. — 1950
3. •
   To convert to the wearing of turbans or, by extension, to increase the percentage of arabs in a population.

   • A pamphlet, widely distributed a bit later in all Europe, reproaches him severely for 'turbanizing' France. — 2006
4. •
   To improve efficiency by scraping off scale from steel alloy pipes.

   • The showing made by this swift water bug so impressed the Admiralty that they took steps to turbanize the British navy. — 1934