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Head-dress forming part of the insignia of a bishop in the Western Church, and worn also by certain abbots and other ecclesiastics as a mark of exceptional dignity. close window
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Head-dress with crest feathers shown as knobs, Dresden 7c.
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Head-dress, possibly representing a parrot, Dresden 12b.
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[* Head-dress that hangs down over the shoulders.]
Jimgrim and Allah's Peace Talbot Mundy 1909
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Head-dress: a sort of diadem or even a light crown.
The Blue Bird: a Fairy Play in Six Acts Maurice Maeterlinck 1905
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Head-dress, formed of four narrow slats of wood, neatly hinged together with small thongs of skin; the outer slats are longer than the two middle ones, thus leaving a square recess for the head.
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Head-dress of leather and cotton cloth, painted white and black.
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Head-dress shaped like 68986, but the ring is of rawhide, and the rest of wood.
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Head-dress composed of a ring of cotton cloth, stuffed with some soft substance, and with a wooden tablet at one side and a horn at the other, and painted black and white.
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Head-dress of buckskin, with long horns of the same material, painted black and white.
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