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When I can remember to be a good Congolese wife, I tie it up in a headcloth.

The cabin door opened and Dilsey emerged, again in the maroon cape and the purple gown, and wearing soiled white elbow-length gloves and minus her headcloth now.

Most of the knots fixed that morning had loosened under her headcloth and were now cupfuls of soft wool her fingers thrilled to.

And the carpenter's wife in the Miller's Tale wears something called a "voluper" which seems to have been a white headcloth with tapes attached.

Millicent Wanjiku Kuria, a middle-aged widow, beams under an orange headcloth.