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- noun Plural form of
warbonnet .
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Examples
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Both were dressed in warbonnets, buckskins, and moccasins.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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Our native leaders wearing the warbonnets of eagle feathers; should never be put on the level of having to raise their hand -- to anybody.
Melinda Gopher: The Historic Obama Tribal Summit: Uphold the Spirit of America's Founding 2009
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The night of August 1, wearing their white and green and yellow war paint, their warbonnets, their feathers in scalp-locks, the warriors moved like dark shadows across the rough country north of the Big Piney.
THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007
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General W. S. Harney marched his soldiers and wagon trains to the meeting place with considerable pomp and ceremony, but the Indians surpassed him by riding up in a swirling formation of five concentric circles, their horses striped with war paint, the riders wearing warbonnets and carrying gay battle streamers.
THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007
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They donned their warbonnets and their gaudy war shirts and all the emblems of battle peculiar to each tribe.
THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007
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They had on everything fancy that an Indian could -- paint and warbonnets and feathers.
Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History Various
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