gaung baung

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See also: gaungbaung and gaung-baung

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Etymology

Borrowed from Burmese ခေါင်းပေါင်း (hkaung:paung:).

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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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