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[ UK /hˈɛddɹɛs/ ]
[ US /ˈhɛˌdɹɛs/ ]
NOUN
  1. clothing for the head

How To Use headdress In A Sentence

  • Also on the program that night were the Marshall Dancers from the Lower Yukon, dressed in sumptuous headdresses that were trimmed with wolf and beaver fur.
  • It meant they changed their college berets for the headdress of the regiment they are going to join.
  • He wears a long, white cotton thobe, bleached and pressed to a dazzling crispness, and a red-checked ghutra headdress held in place by the black agal headband, the wool cord once used by the Bedouins to hobble their camels. Richard Bangs: Bahrain: Once Was Paradise
  • During the ritual ceremonies and dances, Hopi men wear elaborate costumes that include special headdresses, masks, and body paints.
  • The innumerable efforts to identify the glyphs by their superficial appearance, calling the banded headdress a “pottery decoration,” and explaining the face-glyph of the North thereby, because in Maya _xaman_ is north and _xamach_ a tortilla dish (to say nothing of others still more fanciful, by a host of writers), have broken down, as was to be expected. Commentary Upon the Maya-Tzental Perez Codex with a Concluding Note Upon the Linguistic Problem of the Maya Glyphs
  • Can not touch the children, girls or young monk's head and headdress.
  • The pine pitch waterproofed moccasins and held feathers firmly in headdresses. Bird Cloud
  • Look at how the pleating in the Virgin's headdress and halo is matched by the pattern of the rocks behind her head: brilliant artificiality or naive conceit? Gopnik's Daily Pic: Bacchiacca in Baltimore
  • During the Middle Ages, earrings became less popular and practical due to the popularity of elaborate hairstyles and headdresses.
  • As I sifted between lines for funnel cakes and frybread, I watched an elderly man in an ornate headdress polish off a Frito pie with a big smile on his face. Ryan Schwartz: Tribal Celebrations Stir the Senses
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