Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A covering or ornament for the head.
- n. A hairdo; a coiffure.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A covering or decoration for the head, as a hat, cap, coif, kerchief, or veil, or any arrangement of the hair with or without such a covering.
Wiktionary
- n. a decorative covering or ornament worn on the head.
- n. a hairdo.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A covering or ornament for the head; a headtire.
- n. A manner of dressing the hair or of adorning it, whether with or without a veil, ribbons, combs, etc.
WordNet 3.0
- n. clothing for the head
Etymologies
- head + dress (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Feeding at a tubular blossom protruding out of the headdress is a hummingbird.”
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“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 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.”
“In western Iraq, the favored headdress is white and red; in the south it is white and black.”
“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.”
“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.”
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“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.”
“(Note that I wrote feather "dress" and not "headdress" -- didn't want any confusion on that front.)”
“The Intercontinental catered to mainly Christian tour groups and the camel and the headdress were a great hit for many years.”
“You can see the rather ragtag headdress I constructed for her from cardboard and foam core.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘headdress’.
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[Open] “What’s that on your head?”
Headgear: “anything worn on the head” (that isn’t part of the head). Hats are fine, but for a more detailed, wider selection of fashionable hats in all colors and sizes, please see Reese Tee’s li...
goggles, wig, headdress, cap, hackamore, halter, bridle, beanie, turban, hat, crown, chapeau and 126 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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MUSIC - jazz
Afro, habanera, pentatonic scale, bop, bebop, jazz, cool jazz, pentatonic, malignment, music genre, jazz musician, syncopate and 437 more...
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hats and headgear
Everything hats,things with hoods,hoods,scarves,crowns,useful
adjectival forms,hat expressions,
alternate spellingsbabushka, balaclava, bamoral, baseball cap, beanie, bearskin, beaver hat, beret, billycock, biretta, boater, bobble hat and 422 more...
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Hats Off!
trilby, porkpie, panama, fedora, pillbox, stovepipe, turban, boater, ball cap, pastorella, beret, bowler and 219 more...
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What Keeps Your Ears Apart?
A sort of stuffie of words/phrases that include "head"
head of cattle, out of one's head, head of the stairs, come to a head, head of steam, head of the page, win by a head, head taller, headway, fountainhead, heads or tails, hit the nail on t... and 143 more...
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Seven
turnskin, therianthrope, mimic, mimical, mimetic, animagus, selkie, incantatory, cynanthrope, therianthropy, nagual, pooka and 200 more...
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