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Start with the advance teaser "Headdress," from the upcoming release Rewild.
Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume Seventy-Six 2009
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So is that guy with the Snake Headdress and get up going to be in the film?
First G.I. Joe Poster Plus Subtitle - Rise of Cobra « FirstShowing.net 2008
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“Bayonets” has made its rounds on the Internet as their newest hot single, while the video for “Headdress” is a hazy, fantastic trip, complete with a cloak, a forest and a fair maiden.
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In his play Dos Shterntikhl (The Headdress, 1861), Israel Axenfeld (1787 – 1866) portrays a young male entrepreneur whose money and sexual potency give him the advantage over a gullible woman belonging to a conservative world destined for oblivion.
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Headdress fabulous but optional, depending on whether one of your competitors is seated behind you.
not exactly what is usually meant by "basket case" - A Dress A Day 2007
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"I take personal offense to the blatant racism and perverted cultural appropriation your store features this season as 'fashion,' " she wrote, citing "tacky" products including "Navajo Hipster Panty, Navajo Print Fabric Wrapped Flask, Peace Treaty Feather Necklace and Staring at Stars Skull Native Headdress T-shirt."
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Chief Headdress is what they call Tomou, which is human Hair plaited scarce thicker than common thread.
Captain Cook's Journal during his first voyage round the world 1767
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They sometimes wear Turbands, but their Chief Headdress is what they call Tomou, which is human Hair plaited scarce thicker than common thread.
Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World James Cook 1753
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Place, and had passed the Winter at London with her Husband, entered the Congregation in a little Headdress, and a hoop'd
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Divisions upon an Headdress, knows every Dish of Meat that is served up in her Neighbourhood, and entertains her Company a whole Afternoon together with the Wit of her little Boy, before he is able to speak.
The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700
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