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
Enormous allonge perukes and ruffles, the fontange (high headdress), hoops, and high heels, rendered the human race a caricature of itself. Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4
The 15-minute film shows Mr Jami interviewing the prophet Muhammed, played by an actor wearing a Bedouin headdress, his face covered by a paper mask. Yet another Dutch politician presents a film about Islam
The women came out one by one, dressed in their finest linen, and with ceremonial headdresses and jewellery.
Dressed in flowing white, wearing a crown-of-thorns headdress and posing with arms outstretched, crucifixion-style, Lilo was snapped by style photographer Terry Richardson for the new issue of Purple Magazine. Lindsay Lohan Nude Threesome Photoshoot Purple Magazine
Everything from the thunderous Wagnerian music to the performers' skin-tight unitards and birdlike headdresses reinforces the show's sleek, aerial character.
The dancers wore silver all-in-ones, headdresses and these codpieces on top of their trousers like in A Clockwork Orange.
There wasn't much room, and while doing so he knocked his headdress into his eyes and so took some time readjusting it in the rear view mirror.
The men wear a horned headdress with a tall tuft of feathers and a fringe of cowry shells dangling over their faces.
In the watery foreground a buxom nude with an elaborate headdress is carried away on frilly waves by an aged, bearded merman with a tortoise-shell shield. Masterful Engravers
Headdresses, like the African one pictured in this article, show one way in which people have used spirals based on shapes found in Nature for headdresses.
This one was of lilac silk with a wreath of white flowers for a headdress. PERDITA: The Life of Mary Robinson
The falling mass below the headdress is intended to represent hair dressed according to the Egyptian fashin, in an infinite number of small plaits, each finished off with an ornamental tag. A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
OK, fine: the Pope despite the full-length resplendent robes and the tiara-on-testosterone headdress will never be a queen. John Shore: Come Out Of The Woods, Christian Soldiers: World War Gay Has Ended
Many Arabs wear traditional Muslim dress, which for men is a turban or other headdress and long robes, and for women is a long robe that covers the head and the entire body.
Nearly everyone around the world knew the man in khaki with the keffiyeh headdress. Outlook India
The form of the headdress also almost completely replicates the form of the short-handled agricultural hoe.
The bride wore a full length gown of ivory with a tiara headdress.
Costumes featured pink headdresses and women in white cotton dresses.
Headdresses were extravagantly plumed helmets or crowns fusing baroque and classical styles, and the masquers were shod in tightly fitting short boots, or buskins.
Then she plaited her hair and put it up under a short headdress and veil.
Atop his head was a headdress of leaves; his skin was painted a dark tincture of blue, and his fair eyes shone e'en from that distance as surely as his throwing-spear was pointed with a true-sharp arrowhead.
He showed me primary-source drawings of the snake headdress, sandals, wing corselet, and transparent garment worn by Kushite royalty. Kushite King
Enormous allonge perukes and ruffles, the fontange (high headdress), hoops, and high heels, rendered the human race a caricature of itself. Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4
Mountain-dwelling Hani women in patchwork costumes sell beaded headdresses and bags.
Hanging inside was a beautiful white velvet dress, a headdress and pretty white underwear. The Sun
The dancer wore a headdress of pink ostrich plumes.
These seated males are costumed in turban headdresses, earflares, collars, and pectorals; in their right hands they hold scepters or fanlike implements.
Everything from the thunderous Wagnerian music to the performers' skin-tight unitards and birdlike headdresses reinforces the show's sleek, aerial character.
Her peasant headdress was high and elaborate, winged with chicken feathers, and her short skirts gave way before white stockings pulpily emerging from painted wooden shoes which clicked over the dull tiled floor. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life
It is amusing to see blonde Germans peeking out from under feather headdresses and holding powwows by teepees.
They had time to pass before the rite began; no one was dressed, the pig was still half-raw, and the woman weaving the floral headdresses had run out of crocuses and tulips and was raiding the herb cabinet for something else to use. Dark Oracle
In some of the boats there are people standing up, wearing plumed headdresses.
He was known for his temper tantrums, raging over such things as inauthentic headdresses for a film's extras.
But while dancing the mambo in a fruit headdress, this art history major secretly desired to emulate Elsie de Wolfe, the influential society decorator.
The bridesmaid wore a boned bodice and full-length skirt in claret red heavy satin, and a claret and gold feather headdress.
Bend the headdress so it fits around your head, staple ends together. The Sun
There was a very slim, languid-looking beauty in a gold sari reclining in the palankeen, another plump piece in scarlet trousers and jacket beside her, and a third, very black, but fine-boned as a Swede, with a pearl headdress that must have cost my year's pay, sitting in a kind of camp-chair alongside - even the ladies 'maid standing beside the palankeen was a looker, with great almond eyes and a figure inside her plain white sari like a Hindoo temple goddess. Fiancée
He wore military fatigues over a black shirt and a black-and-white checked Arab headdress wrapped around his head.
Everyone knew that he wore a bizarre costume of massive baggy trousers, and a headdress of ostrich feathers atop ornate waistcoats and colourful jackets.
Today, Kevin is wearing his robes: a long, flowing white tunic, a shawl and a headdress with a yellow headband.
She virtually invented boho-chic: swirly tiered skirts, fringed shawls and improbable headdresses, worn with an insouciant slash of scarlet lipstick on her sensuous lips.
It includes an ornate woven cape, a decorated tunic, a feathered headdress, laced shoes and jewelry.
Once the initiates, who are of the receiving moiety, have seen the tableau and danced with headdresses all night long, this beautiful structure is rapidly dismantled.
His long, grayish hair was woven and braided about a huge horned headdress, and his midnight blue and evergreen robes were embroidered in silver.
Playing-cards, snuffboxes, and fringed gloves elbowed a shelf of books, and a full-bottomed wig ogled a lady's headdress of ribbon and malines. Audrey
A sensational onstage music ensemble, dominated by percussionists and two dynamic singers in gold caftans and headdresses, make the music as vivid as the dancing.
In the Duala headdresses, the animal is an antelope, perhaps the African water chevrotain that was once common in the Delta and the Wouri estuary.
A sensational onstage music ensemble, dominated by percussionists and two dynamic singers in gold caftans and headdresses, make the music as vivid as the dancing.
They consist of a human or animal face attached to a large, bulging superstructure or headdress that is painted with elaborate patterns.
The headdress was a golden circlet with silvery strings flowing off it.
She was the Amazon, with a crimson headdress, eyeing the miniature man she held between thumb and forefinger.
Today, Kevin is wearing his robes: a long, flowing white tunic, a shawl and a headdress with a yellow headband.
A quick glance at some of the figures, ironically, and several of the figures seem to resemble one another, with their pointed headdresses and bug-eyed countenances.
First, invest in a hot-glue gun: It's an essential tool for crafting pasties and affixing feathers to headdresses.
Personal adornment was an intrinsic part of Amazonian culture, and some examples such as loincloths and headdresses survive, while other adornments such as tattoos are known only from artworks.
A tall headdress of purple-and-gold kitenge cloth hid the contours of her hair and head.
In some of the boats there are people standing up, wearing plumed headdresses.
Headdresses were extravagantly plumed helmets or crowns fusing baroque and classical styles.
And that headdress would get caught up in the overhead wires, you silly boy.
My horse, inaptly named Pegasus, brings me to the base of Ahu Tepeu, a magnificent beetle-browed statue crowned with a red stone headdress weighing eleven tons. Richard Bangs: Skullduggery on Easter Island (Part II of II)
The traditional headdress has a wooden framework covered with coral, pearls, amber, and turquoise.
It includes an ornate woven cape, a decorated tunic, a feathered headdress, laced shoes and jewelry.
No part of the costume has been left undecorated, while the tall headdress is particularly ornate.
It seems logical that the incredible headdresses, the folded, puffed and knotted clothes, are all designed to make the wearer look bigger, taller and more impressive.
During temple rituals, participants may wear ordinary clothes, or a variety of Egyptian-style robes, headdresses, and jewelry such as ankh pendants or scarab rings.
His trademark Palestinian headdress, the keffiyeh, which he adopted in 1956 as a radical student, made him immediately identifiable and became part of the myths he wove about his life.
Because want was high, and because these wigs consumed a lot of resources, these headdresses were fabricated out of pretty sketchy stuff: “pomatum, artificial pads, and hair procured from corpses.” KN | Kitsune Noir » Lady Gaga’s Next Look
On Saturday Mr. Al Essawy stepped into the cage, which was painted like an Egyptian flag, sporting a ponytail, a tank top scrawled with a pro-Palestinian slogan and the traditional Palestinian headdress, a kafiya, wrapped around his neck. By Battling a Big, Bored Cat, Strongman Roars to Egypt's Aid
They queued for appointments to have spectacular couture headdresses especially made for them out of hydrangeas, gypsophila, daisies, fake roses, tinsel and toy parts by Kirchhoff, Meadham and Mazhar. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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
The luxuriance of the grebe's summer headdress seems somehow out of step with the frigid greyness of this landscape. Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk
Bend the headdress so it fits around your head, staple ends together. The Sun
In the adjacent mirror is a spatially confusing reflection of a woman wearing a rose headdress.
A striking creature, the hoopoe has bright cinnamon pink coloration and a crest of black-tipped feathers that, when erect, resembles an Indian headdress.
The dramatic hollow cone projecting from the front of the headdress is understood as a beehive.
Did it have to be undermined by his character being offered the preposterous spectacle of officers saluting while not wearing headdress? Times, Sunday Times
In western Iraq, the favored headdress is white and red; in the south it is white and black. Differences between the Shia and Sunni in Iraq
A tab-like projection on the center of a carved skullcap served to hold a headdress of animal skins and feathers.
Another, not to be outdone, has made a headdress out of a baseball cap with a blue nylon tablecloth wrapped around it.
The Taiko costume - black shirt and pants, white tabis, black wristbands, a pink sash around the waist, and, for the boys, a pink turban-like headdress - was next to impossible to put on without help.
They wear long petticoated gowns with shawls, along with extravagant headdresses.
He was on the first step down, and Lainey, in a muumuu, with her bizarre headdress, towered over him like some huge Samoan goddess. FAMILY PICTURES
Bright colored feathers of the bishop bird adorn his headdress.
When the woman marries, the hair is made into an ornamental headdress and brought to the husband's home as a souvenir.
This headdress is a frame into which the hair is twisted on each side, and a few hairs are taken from the top of the head up to the frame. The Assault on Everest
They wear long petticoated gowns with shawls, along with extravagant headdresses.
The agal is an accessory constructed of cord which is fastened around the Keffiyeh (an Arab headdress) to hold it.
The bride, given in marriage by her father, looked radiant in a white satin dress with a train of satin lace with matching headdress.
She was dressed in a stylish outfit for church, wearing a leather patchwork blazer and a felt beret in place of the traditional headdress.
She carefully removed her headdress and pulled the choir robe over her head.
His trademark Palestinian headdress, the keffiyeh, which he adopted in 1956 as a radical student, made him immediately identifiable and became part of the myths he wove about his life.
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The Maori adorn themselves with the plumes just as the natives of New Guinea crown their headdresses with Bird-of paradise feathers.
There, Lorenz first donned a kaffiyeh, an Arab headdress of folded cloth that's held on by a cord. Wal-Mart fires man for religious expression
The front of the headdress was a smooth, masklike, transparent covering that allowed the wearer's features to be eas ily identified and her expressions easily read, and also allowed a broad visual sweep with the fullest possible peripheral sight lines. Massage
There was a very slim, languid-looking beauty in a gold sari reclining in the palankeen, another plump piece in scarlet trousers and jacket beside her, and a third, very black, but fine-boned as a Swede, with a pearl headdress that must have cost my year's pay, sitting in a kind of camp-chair alongside — even the ladies 'maid standing beside the palankeen was a looker, with great almond eyes and a figure inside her plain white sari like a Hindoo temple goddess. Flashman In The Great Game
Most intriguing was a black incense burner, depicting a man wearing a distinctive headdress, marked by a trefoil shape on its forehead like the tassel of a jester's cap. How a 'Jester god' revealed oldest Mayan royal tomb
Photos apparently taken from the propeller plane that transported Seif al-Islam from the desert showed him swathed in the tan-colored robes and headdress of southern Libyan tribes. Gadhafi's Son Is Captured in Libya
The drop earrings, tomahawk, knife and scabbard, and bow and arrows vie for the viewer's attention with the striking claret color of the headdress, which matches both the fringe of the frock coat and one of the shoulder sashes.
Their faces are covered with feathered masks similar to North American Indian headdresses.
Each wears a tall conical headdress made of fresh Thaumatococcus leaves and raffia sacking on a stick frame; it ends in a calabash that fits over the wearer's face.
The headdress was an heirloom that mingled pearls with a few choice brilliants.
Tourists, the Cherokee believe, like to see a Chief dressed in buckskin and ornamented with a grand feather headdress that encircles that Chief’s face and trails down his back to the ground.
The bride wore white with a pearl headdress.
Atop his head was a headdress of leaves; his skin was painted a dark tincture of blue, and his fair eyes shone e'en from that distance as surely as his throwing-spear was pointed with a true-sharp arrowhead.
Every afternoon conchero dancers wearing feathered headdresses and shell anklets and bracelets gather in the main square to remind everyone of the country's Aztec heritage.
The dramatic hollow cone projecting from the front of the headdress is understood as a beehive.
The earliest forms of military headdress date from pre-classical times and were caps or helmets of leather, stiffened cloth, and metal.
Angkor Vat's new emphasis on ornamentation is seen in the decorative carving of the serpent's heads and the finely incised headdress of the Buddha.
Beside her sat a yellow and wrinkled woman of forty-five, with a low neck, in a black headdress, with a toothless smile on her intently-preoccupied and empty face, and in the inner recesses of the box was visible an elderly man in a wide frock-coat and high cravat, with an expression of dull dignity and a kind of ingratiating distrustfulness in his little eyes, with dyed moustache and whiskers, a large meaningless forehead and wrinkled cheeks, by every sign a retired general. Chapter XII
But alas, not an Indian headdress in sight. Times, Sunday Times
In Mexico City, we saw people dressed in pre-Hispanic style costumes with elaborate headdresses dancing around offerings to the gods.
The duke touches the arm of a bearded man in Eastern headdress and brocade robe.
The knights ride Andalusian crosses of sorrel and bay costumed spectacularly in body and headdress.
So the cap was the headdress of the underclass, the turban of the landed gentry, and the pagri of the urban rich and of the maharajas.
Lavish headdresses, skirts, suits, and hats gave way to leather and chains depending on the music.
Headdresses were extravagantly plumed helmets or crowns fusing baroque and classical styles, and the masquers were shod in tightly fitting short boots, or buskins.
Some Rastas also wear tams and other forms of headdress as a religious head covering.
A Congo source for the feathered headdress and the costume elements, including a tight-fitting, long-sleeved shirt, an apron-like overskirt, and longer pants, is quite probable.
Then she plaited her hair and put it up under a short headdress and veil.
Any five-year-old would be delighted with a dress-up trunk containing tiaras, masks, swords, mouse-tails, feathered headdresses and sequined veils.
The headdress with its straight, sharp horns holds out a model of a very different sort of response - that of active fight and resistance.
Or Deadwood Dick, a South Dakota bronco buster and Indian fighter who was such a great marksman, he could choose a feather in an Indian headdress and knock it out with one shot at full gallop.
This was in fashion two or three years past; this is the fashion of last year [_takes a head up_]; and this the morning headdress [_takes the head_] of this present A Lecture On Heads As Delivered By Mr. Charles Lee Lewes, To Which Is Added, An Essay On Satire, With Forty-Seven Heads By Nesbit, From Designs By Thurston, 1812
The dancer wore a headdress of pink ostrich plumes.
This type of frontlet is worn as a headdress, usually with a trailer of ermine skins.
The principal headdress for men is a high, stiff felt hat or fur cap with earflaps, the latter of which is worn during the winter months.
In an apparent attempt to reclaim the Indian identity that caused his beloved to reject him, he emerges from the house dressed in an unbuttoned buckskin shirt and headdress, with a blanket around his waist.
The luxuriance of the grebe's summer headdress seems somehow out of step with the frigid greyness of this landscape. Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk
She was grand in her richly ornate gown and headdress.
Feeding at a tubular blossom protruding out of the headdress is a hummingbird. Did you know? Mexico is home to more than fifty hummingbird species
Even the bonnet with the eagle's feather, which Sir Walter Scott induced Kemble to substitute for his "shuttlecock" headdress of ostrich plumes, was held to be inadmissible: the Macbeth of the antiquaries wore a conical iron helmet, and was otherwise arrayed in barbaric armour. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character
Yes, headdress and veil are included, but the do-rag stays with me.

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