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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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This is road trip country, with stops to pick up hot bread and herbal tea made curbside, soft-serve from the ice cream vans that line major routes, and headdresses made from fresh herbs and flowers, typically worn around Rijal Alma’a.
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Selina Denman, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Nov. 2024
Elizabeth is on a horse wearing a bird headdress with distinctively owlish characteristics.
—Alice Burton, Vulture, 16 Aug. 2024
And the look for me isn't complete without a hat or some kind of headdress.
—Alex Apatoff, People.com, 15 Oct. 2024
The carvings include birds, plants, spiders, humanlike figures with headdresses, decapitated heads and an orca wielding a knife.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 27 Sep. 2024
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Selina Denman, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Nov. 2024
Elizabeth is on a horse wearing a bird headdress with distinctively owlish characteristics.
—Alice Burton, Vulture, 16 Aug. 2024
And the look for me isn't complete without a hat or some kind of headdress.
—Alex Apatoff, People.com, 15 Oct. 2024
The carvings include birds, plants, spiders, humanlike figures with headdresses, decapitated heads and an orca wielding a knife.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 27 Sep. 2024
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“Headdress.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/headdress. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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headdress
noun
head·dress
ˈhed-ˌdres 
: a covering or ornament for the head
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