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Kate, dressed in a dark suit with tiny white polka dots and a black-and-white “fascinator” British fashion lingo for a head-piece, walked with a formally attired Prince Harry to the Galilee Porch of the church.
William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011
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"Ephemera" had been featured, with gorgeous head-piece and
Chapter 40 2010
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On one side of the head-piece was Brissenden's photograph, on the other side was the photograph of Sir John Value, the British Ambassador.
Chapter 40 2010
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Kate, dressed in a dark suit with tiny white polka dots and a black-and-white “fascinator” British fashion lingo for a head-piece, walked with a formally attired Prince Harry to the Galilee Porch of the church.
William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011
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Her tresses were covered with a light steel head-piece, though some of them, escaping, played round her face, and gave relief to those handsome features which might otherwise have seemed too formal, if closed entirely within the verge of steel.
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He had a bright burnished head-piece, with a plume of feathers, together with a cuirass, thick enough to resist a musket-ball, and a back-piece of lighter materials.
A Legend of Montrose 2008
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The gleam of the sunbeams upon his head-piece and corslet showed that he was in armour, and the purpose of the other travellers required that he should not pass unquestioned.
A Legend of Montrose 2008
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Then noble Rueful, like Ares himself, struck his flawless head-piece made of four pots — he only among the Frogs showed prowess in the throng.
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And he flung forth his monstrous arm out of the half-dark of a shadow that did be cast by the dance of the fire-hole, and caught my head-piece and pluckt it from me so strong and brutish that he cast me nigh a dozen feet on to my back.
The Night Land 2007
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And the way I washt, was that I dipt my head-piece into the hot pool, and poured the water over me, and rubbed my body very strong with my hands; and there to be, surely, some certain chemical in the water that aided mine efforts; for the water went very smooth under my hands.
The Night Land 2007
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