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- noun Plural form of
headdress .
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Examples
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They kept it to themselves while the delegates watched Indians in headdresses with six-foot quetzal plumes dance at the pyramid’s base.
Slow Food, High Gear 2008
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They kept it to themselves while the delegates watched Indians in headdresses with six-foot quetzal plumes dance at the pyramid’s base.
Slow Food, High Gear 2008
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Make vibrantly colored headdresses with fabric artist Russ Little, take a free merengue dance lesson, see the exhibit "Entropics" and enjoy the Latin rhythms of Cantare, a trio that will perform in Spanish and Portuguese.
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I get asked a lot on book tours if I know any “real, live” Indians, and I honestly have to stop and think about what that means, because I think some people still think of western South Dakota as the untamed Wild West, where Indians ride horses, wear elaborate headdresses, live in tepees, and hunt buffalo.
Mercy Kill Lori Armstrong 2011
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The pine pitch waterproofed moccasins and held feathers firmly in headdresses.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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The boxes are headdresses for children wanting to play broken down dead and gone cowboys and Indians.
An Episode of Boxes J. A. Tyler 2011
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Andrea Stone and Marc Zender Mayan headdress One of the most intriguing headdresses in Maya art is a tall war helmet covered in a mosaic of shell plaques, as seen above from a stone carving.
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Among the mounds, glow-in-the-dark wall protuberances, and Mardi Gras-like peacock headdresses, don't miss the large bronze, curved, double-headed, and veined dildo nailed to the wall, titled Smile.
Jerry Saltz: Ask an Art Critic: Jerry Saltz Answers Your Questions About George Condo, Online Art Fairs, and What Abstraction Really Is Jerry Saltz 2011
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The boxes are headdresses for children wanting to play broken down dead and gone cowboys and Indians.
An Episode of Boxes J. A. Tyler 2011
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Among the mounds, glow-in-the-dark wall protuberances, and Mardi Gras-like peacock headdresses, don't miss the large bronze, curved, double-headed, and veined dildo nailed to the wall, titled Smile.
Jerry Saltz: Ask an Art Critic: Jerry Saltz Answers Your Questions About George Condo, Online Art Fairs, and What Abstraction Really Is Jerry Saltz 2011
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