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Examples of headdress in a Sentence
The dancers wore ceremonial headdresses.
most of the acrobats riding the horses and elephants wore some sort of fancy headdress
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One was said to show a nun, whose face was mostly visible under a white headdress; the other, a man in a black hat, in profile.
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Shayla Love, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2024
The person in the center had a silver headdress strikingly resembling a halo, just as what appears atop Jesus’s head in typical religious iconography.
—Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 31 July 2024
The Dior Haute Couture look featured a bustier and black satin panties, a Dior headdress, gloves and shoes.
—Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 July 2024
Austrian museum where Moctezuma's headdress is says the piece 'cannot be moved'
Sara Novak is a science journalist based in South Carolina.
—Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 11 July 2024
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Shayla Love, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2024
The person in the center had a silver headdress strikingly resembling a halo, just as what appears atop Jesus’s head in typical religious iconography.
—Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 31 July 2024
The Dior Haute Couture look featured a bustier and black satin panties, a Dior headdress, gloves and shoes.
—Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 July 2024
Austrian museum where Moctezuma's headdress is says the piece 'cannot be moved'
Sara Novak is a science journalist based in South Carolina.
—Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 11 July 2024
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“Headdress.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/headdress. Accessed 19 Aug. 2024.
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headdress
noun
head·dress
ˈhed-ˌdres 
: a covering or ornament for the head
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