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A Roman head-dress formed by plaiting the hair in a cone above the forehead, worn esp. by the Flamen and his wife.
Medallion Vulcan | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009
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Local legends say Oconahua had many stone stelae, each as tall as a person and topped with a feather head-dress.
The Tecpan of Ocomo: largest indigenous palace in Mesoamerica 2009
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Local legends say Oconahua had many stone stelae, each as tall as a person and topped with a feather head-dress.
The Tecpan of Ocomo: largest indigenous palace in Mesoamerica 2009
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•Agents posing as jihadists after the test explosion also helped Mohamud — dressed in a white robe, head-dress and camouflage jacket — prepare a "Sheik Osama-style" video in which Mohamud allegedly recites a rambling statement taking responsibility for the planned attack.
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In sequined belly-button splendour, with her veils and jewelled head-dress making interesting patterns of light and shade across the pale cream leather and West of England Cloth she can waft us around the West End after dark, a bubbling hookah pipe clasped between our heels.
Bristol Fashion Peter Ashley 2008
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•Agents posing as jihadists after the test explosion also helped Mohamud — dressed in a white robe, head-dress and camouflage jacket — prepare a "Sheik Osama-style" video in which Mohamud allegedly recites a rambling statement taking responsibility for the planned attack.
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I took up a different picture, a picture of a gigantic spirit, with the same rodlike head-dress, leaning over a sleeping man.
Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000
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Early 1960s: Yasser Arafat begins wearing the keffiyeh as head-dress.
Rebecca Addelman: Crisis in the Middle East: Gone to the Dogs 2009
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No matter how many reporters wear an Islamic head-dress.
Leslie Griffith: Man in the Mirror -- How Death Becomes Us 2009
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The first gown is described as -A straw coloured dress of sarsnet, with alternate stripes of lace; head-dress to correspond, with white ostrich feathers.
Archive 2009-02-01 Michele Ann Young 2009
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