warbonnet

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Recent Examples of warbonnet Among my People, the Oceti Sakowin (Great Sioux Nation), the warbonnet was only given to those who earned each and every eagle feather through bravery, self-sacrifice and great deeds of valor. Ruth Hopkins, Teen Vogue, 12 Nov. 2019 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
  • Nashville police said in a release 31-year-old Ashley Sells was the driver of a Dodge Charger that video evidence showed was performing doughnuts while Shannon Kilgore was laying on the hood.
    Ruben Montoya, Nashville Tennessean, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The top included a hood that draped down into a high neckline, while the floor-length skirt featured a sculptural roll of padding around the waistband, creating a flared look at her hips.
    Catherine Santino, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Players can also voluntarily choose to wear one of the slogans on their helmets.
    Rebecca Tauber, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Advertisement The trends in the report are heartening for Americans’ health, and, not for nothing, good news too for the marketers who supply the balls, helmets, paddles, and bats that keep us out on the greens, courts, tracks, and fields.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • She was last seen wearing a white tank top, gray skinny ripped jeans and a pink bonnet in her hair.
    Jack Albright, jsonline.com, 18 July 2025
  • This car gets a full-width rear spoiler offering 44kg of downforce at 202 mph, a plethora of ‘S’ badging, bonnet blades, and underbody treatment, to allow for 111kg of downforce at vmax.
    Matthew MacConnell, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • The post-Shah state was a mishmash of neckties and turbans, with Bazargan as Prime Minister and Khomeini hovering somewhere above.
    Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Yet the courts that uphold the rights of Sikhs to keep their long hair, beards and turbans while serving in the military and the right for parents to opt their kids out of certain classes or curriculum materials also rule against Native religious rights far more often than for them.
    Debra Utacia Krol, AZCentral.com, 13 July 2025
Noun
  • People started droping off costume accessories and dress-up requests — a sombrero for Cinco De Mayo, for example.
    Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 30 May 2025
  • Many of the protesters had covered their faces and wore long sleeves; one wore a sombrero.
    Emily Witt, New Yorker, 11 June 2025
Noun
  • Sutton Foster crochets Hugh Jackman a marching-band shako for the occasion.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Tip o the shako to Heather Curtis.
    Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 25 Oct. 2012
Noun
  • In a race that includes a former governor and incumbent mayor with national reputations, a socialist frontrunner, and a combative former mayoral candidate toting a red beret, Walden’s relatively low-key temperament has seen his presence in the campaign diminished by his rivals.
    Menachem Spiegel, New York Daily News, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Think crochet dresses, chiffon shawls in sorbet hues, berets, coiffed afros, mixed prints, Studio 54-esque jumpsuits, beaded braids à la Patrice Rushen, and men dressed like Barkley Hendricks paintings.
    Shelton Boyd-Griffith, Vogue, 4 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Today he is dressed in all black, with a gray baseball cap pulled low over his eyes.
    Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025
  • However, a source tells PEOPLE that the apparent bruising in the photos, which show Richards running errands in Los Angeles wearing a baseball cap, is a result of a cosmetic procedure.
    Liza Esquibias, People.com, 6 Aug. 2025

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“Warbonnet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/warbonnet. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.

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