warbonnet

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Recent Examples of warbonnet Love is a War Song follows pop star Avery Fox, who is reeling from a backlash after posing in a Native American warbonnet on the cover of Rolling Stone. EW.com, 28 Aug. 2025 Disrespecting the warbonnet is a grievous wrong and dishonors the likes of all who earned them with pride, like Sitting Bull and Rain-in-the-Face. Ruth Hopkins, Teen Vogue, 12 Nov. 2019 This week on the @natgeo Instagram, a swimmer navigates Devil's Eye Spring, meerkats embrace in Botswana, and a mosshead warbonnet peeks its head out of the neck of a bottle. Steve Winter, National Geographic, 9 Sep. 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for warbonnet
Noun
  • Ferrier fell onto the hood of the car and multiple eyewitnesses reported that Allen tried to accelerate and break in an attempt to get him off.
    WCCO Staff, CBS News, 1 June 2026
  • Under the hood, the agent is pulling text from merchant product descriptions, marketing pages and review snippets that were written to rank on Google, not to survive scrutiny from an AI making a purchase recommendation.
    Michael Quoc, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
Noun
  • Former James Bond actor Sean Connery was dancing, legendary Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson was wearing a Viking helmet and one of the country’s great strikers, Ally McCoist, sang Bruce Springsteen numbers on karaoke.
    Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 3 June 2026
  • Tight ends Jake Briningstool and John Michael Gyllenborg and defensive tackle Omarr Norman-Lott were watching without helmets.
    Pete Sweeney June 3, Kansas City Star, 3 June 2026
Noun
  • There were crinoline explosions and Panama teardrops, tiny little fascinators and huge brimmed sunbonnets.
    Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 30 May 2017
Noun
  • The dining room table, where the sisters wrote, is strewn with manuscripts, quill pens and tea cups; a bonnet and shawl bedeck a chair in the small kitchen.
    Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
  • This is a motorcar with a very long bonnet, very long tail and a very short cabin.
    Morgan Korn, ABC News, 8 May 2026
Noun
  • If Billy, who wears a turban and caftan in a few scenes, calls to mind Norma Desmond of Sunset Boulevard, Schoenbrun directly assures you that that is not an accident.
    Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2026
  • Her matching turban completed the unexpected look.
    Jessica Booth, PEOPLE, 9 May 2026
Noun
  • Quiroz recently began wearing a sombrero.
    Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2026
  • With an Opening Day golden sombrero and an 0-for-7 start to the season, there was plenty of reason to be worried about Aaron Judge.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 27 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The exhibit featured photos of Oloyede commanding Florida A&M’s band, along with her uniform jacket and a tall major shako (military-style) hat.
    AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Sutton Foster crochets Hugh Jackman a marching-band shako for the occasion.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 7 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Charlie Chaplin, an Englishman, did in fact wear a beret as an actor spoofing a pretentious director in his 1916 short Behind the Screen.
    Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • Then came John Travolta and his charming little berets.
    José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 23 May 2026

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“Warbonnet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/warbonnet. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.

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