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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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The group noted the distinguishing headdress with hair parted and braided on each side of his head.
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Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 10 May 2024
Last but certainly not least, Hardison arrived in a black sparkling pleated jacket with a long train, red and green pants, and a matching headdress.
—Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 2 May 2024
The cover depicts a blond, fair-skinned man holding up a mask with the face of a Yanomami man in a feather headdress.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
Her tomb contained magnificent pieces including a headdress of gold leaves, necklaces, chokers, earrings, and ten rings, amongst many more examples crafted from precious metals and stones.
—Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 12 Mar. 2024
Another showed her in a white headdress, tossing flower petals with an Afro-Brazilian society at a local street festival.
—Christopher F. Schuetze, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024
The process of choosing pieces, many featuring numerous elements — masks, clothing, drawings, headdresses, books, props — from so enduring and varied a career was a yearslong endeavor for the museum, a puzzle that needed solving by both Jonas and the show’s curator alike.
—Susan Dominus Emiliano Granado, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024
In costuming her, West used medieval references, particularly in her headdress.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 6 Mar. 2024
In the 1960s, a man wearing a headdress rode the horse.
—Noreen Nasir, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2024
Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 10 May 2024
Last but certainly not least, Hardison arrived in a black sparkling pleated jacket with a long train, red and green pants, and a matching headdress.
—Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 2 May 2024
The cover depicts a blond, fair-skinned man holding up a mask with the face of a Yanomami man in a feather headdress.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
Her tomb contained magnificent pieces including a headdress of gold leaves, necklaces, chokers, earrings, and ten rings, amongst many more examples crafted from precious metals and stones.
—Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 12 Mar. 2024
Another showed her in a white headdress, tossing flower petals with an Afro-Brazilian society at a local street festival.
—Christopher F. Schuetze, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024
The process of choosing pieces, many featuring numerous elements — masks, clothing, drawings, headdresses, books, props — from so enduring and varied a career was a yearslong endeavor for the museum, a puzzle that needed solving by both Jonas and the show’s curator alike.
—Susan Dominus Emiliano Granado, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024
In costuming her, West used medieval references, particularly in her headdress.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 6 Mar. 2024
In the 1960s, a man wearing a headdress rode the horse.
—Noreen Nasir, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2024
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“Headdress.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/headdress. Accessed 18 May. 2024.
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headdress
noun
head·dress
ˈhed-ˌdres 
: a covering or ornament for the head
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