fascinator

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American Heritage Dictionary (2 definitions)

    –noun
  1. One that fascinates.
  2. A woman's head scarf.

Century Dictionary (1 definition)

    –noun
  1. One who or that which fascinates.

Wiktionary (2 definitions)

    –noun
  1. A delicate, often frivolous head decoration worn on the hair, primarily by women
  2. A type of wool or lace headscarf

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  • However, I managed to keep pretty comfortable and snug in "fascinator" and muckluks, enveloped as I was in my Indian blanket.
  • ‘Had I not seen, at a morning concert, the demdest little fascinator in all the world, and while that little fascinator is my wife, may not all the countesses and dowagers in England be —’
  • She sat crocheting what she called a fascinator, her white bone needle moving harmoniously in and out of the blue wool.
 

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/(făsˈə-nāˌtər)/
ahd pronounces "fascinator"
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