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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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Clad in a red headdress and smeared in ash, Varang can wield fire painlessly — and uses that to her benefit in battle with the Na'vi.
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EW.com, 24 July 2025
The pair had performed earlier in the night at the Blue Note Jazz Festival, where Jones hula-hooped to a song in sheer black tights, a thong, and one of her gigantic signature red and black headdresses.
—Richard Johnson, New York Daily News, 15 June 2025
The logo, of a centuries-old chief in Native American headdress, is painted on a massive wall mural adjacent to campus, a few doors down from the barber shop.
—Polo Sandoval, CNN Money, 26 Apr. 2025
The shirts include an outline of the pope’s tall mitre headdress above the White Sox baseball player logo.
—Bill Kirkos, CNN Money, 21 July 2025
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EW.com, 24 July 2025
The pair had performed earlier in the night at the Blue Note Jazz Festival, where Jones hula-hooped to a song in sheer black tights, a thong, and one of her gigantic signature red and black headdresses.
—Richard Johnson, New York Daily News, 15 June 2025
The logo, of a centuries-old chief in Native American headdress, is painted on a massive wall mural adjacent to campus, a few doors down from the barber shop.
—Polo Sandoval, CNN Money, 26 Apr. 2025
The shirts include an outline of the pope’s tall mitre headdress above the White Sox baseball player logo.
—Bill Kirkos, CNN Money, 21 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for headdress
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“Headdress.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/headdress. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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headdress
noun
head·dress
ˈhed-ˌdres 
: a covering or ornament for the head
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