head rag

Noun

 * 1)  A head covering comprising a piece of cloth wound around the head and knotted in the front, often associated with African American women.
 * 2) * 1941, Sallie Carder (interviewee) in Federal Writers’ Project, Slave Narratives, Volume 13, Oklahoma Narratives, p. 27,
 * During my wedding I wore a blue calico dress, a man's shirt tail as a head rag, and a pair of brogan shoes.
 * 1) * 1981,, interview with in Danille Taylor-Guthrie (ed.), Conversations with Toni Morrison, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1994, p. 114,
 * black women slaves in this country were not, by and large, domestics in the house, with the headrag. They worked out in the fields
 * 1) * 2014,, Introduction to Jimmy’s Blues and Other Poems by , Boston: Beacon Press,
 * died from cancer at the age of thirty-four, soon after her great work, ', yanked the apron and head rag''' off the institution of the American theater, Broadway, 1959.
 * 1) * 2014,, Introduction to Jimmy’s Blues and Other Poems by , Boston: Beacon Press,
 * died from cancer at the age of thirty-four, soon after her great work, ', yanked the apron and head rag''' off the institution of the American theater, Broadway, 1959.