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The dancers wore ceremonial headdresses.
most of the acrobats riding the horses and elephants wore some sort of fancy headdress
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Clothing is not all fashioned after Geronimo, and not everyone is running around in a headdress.
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Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Dec. 2024
Several big-ticket pieces by major names failed to sell, including Henri Matisse’s early 1920s portrait of a topless woman in a feathered headdress, carrying a low estimate of $12 million.
—Julia Halperin, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
The resulting photo op may go down in history with Michael Dukakis riding around in a tank in an ill-fitting helmet, or Calvin Coolidge uncomfortably sporting a Native American headdress.
—Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2024
Cappelletti Considered one of the most famous recipes in Italian cuisine, this pasta's hat-like shape resembles a winged headdress worn by country people long ago.
—Irene S. Levine, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
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Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Dec. 2024
Several big-ticket pieces by major names failed to sell, including Henri Matisse’s early 1920s portrait of a topless woman in a feathered headdress, carrying a low estimate of $12 million.
—Julia Halperin, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
The resulting photo op may go down in history with Michael Dukakis riding around in a tank in an ill-fitting helmet, or Calvin Coolidge uncomfortably sporting a Native American headdress.
—Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2024
Cappelletti Considered one of the most famous recipes in Italian cuisine, this pasta's hat-like shape resembles a winged headdress worn by country people long ago.
—Irene S. Levine, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
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“Headdress.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/headdress. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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headdress
noun
head·dress
ˈhed-ˌdres 
: a covering or ornament for the head
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