Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Dress or attire for the head.
Wiktionary
- n. A headdress.
- n. The manner of dressing the head, as at a particular time and place.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A headdress.
- n. The manner of dressing the head, as at a particular time and place.
Etymologies
- head + tire (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Contrary to her wont, her toilette had been very hastily despatched, and her hair, which was usually dressed by Lady Fleming with great care, escaping from beneath the headtire, which had been hastily adjusted, fell in long and luxuriant tresses of Nature’s own curling, over a neck and bosom which were somewhat less carefully veiled than usual.”
“She wore an apron of point lace of various patterns; her headtire was highly perfumed, and the collar of white satin beneath the delicately wrought ruff struck me as exceedingly pretty. ”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘headtire’.
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Rognons of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for terms and phrases that don't fit into any of my other lists.
priorship, exigeant, refectory, reestablish, capper, reesed, quar, reprune, orificial, reaming-iron, terminist, terminism and 3097 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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head wear
head-where: head-ware: head (at)tire
sallet, kangol, halo, peruke, cockade, tam, beret, helmet, hood, circlet, phylactery, chignon and 51 more...
Tweets
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hernesheir I say, which tire company made your lovely hat? Dec 20, 2010