underscarf

A tight-fitting headscarf, usually elasticized, that is worn under a hijab or overscarf.

Noun

  1. A tight-fitting headscarf, usually elasticized, that is worn under a hijab or overscarf.
    • White and crisp and full, but pinned over an underscarf, and this underscarf was decorated with lace. - 2010, Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, In Search of Islamic Feminism, page 368:
    • She pays much attention to wearing matching headscarves, but does not like the style that many younger Turkish girls have adopted, who use underscarves and other materials to produce a high and voluminous head shape. -...
    • Women with a Turkish background, on the other hand, have begun to wear more than square silk headscarfs; they now also use long pashmina shawls combined with underscarfs in contrasting colours (TB 2011-13, p.8). - 2021,...

    Synonyms: undercap

Origin

From under- + scarf.

Forms

underscarfs underscarves