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headdress

noun

ˈhed-ˌdres

Definition of headdress

as in hat

a covering for the head usually having a shaped crown most of the acrobats riding the horses and elephants wore some sort of fancy headdress

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Recent Examples of headdress Besides teaching, Janice Minabe offers costume workshops and designs her daughter’s competition wear, including the towering headdress, which is likened to balancing a small floral garden on top of the skull. — Marcia Luttrell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2026 At one point Pantani was forced to angrily shove a fan in a headdress who gets too close. — Duncan Alexander, New York Times, 24 July 2026 Though the mural, which depicts a man in a headdress holding a spear, had been removed for conservation in 2004, the team relied on advanced imaging techniques to reconstruct both the work and its surrounding architecture. — Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 17 July 2026 All the exquisite details—the man’s glowing salmon-pink tunic, the cherrylike tip of his headdress, the fluffy tassels—are an excuse for pure visual stimulation. — Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 13 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for headdress

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The image could be found on T-shirts, hats, billboards, beer bottles, Christmas ornaments and even adorned the cover of several books written about the championship season.

— Mark Long, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 Oct. 2026
Following the July 28 premiere of her Netflix special Galaxy Brain, the stand-up, actress, and writer is putting her hat in the ring for Best Comedy Album at the 2027 Grammys.

— CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of hat

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The resin cartridges drop into the printer from above, can only go in one way, and have a dispensing valve on the bottom and a vent cap on top that must be opened for resin to flow properly.

— Michael Lydick, PC Magazine, 14 Oct. 2026
The Peterson Foundation estimates that lifting the payroll tax cap would add roughly $3 trillion into the program over the next 10 years.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026

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In another sequence, a compact camera rig mounted on a helmet captured Tom Holland’s performance from near his face, with a blurry red shape added in compositing to suggest the inside of his mask.

— Davide Abbatescianni, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026
One is that with the noise in the tank, the crew will have to use the sort of personal helmet microphones as used by helicopter pilots.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 15 Oct. 2026

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