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
  • Some people even shared old photos of Indigenous peoples wearing the hoods, noting that the originators of the design kept the fur outward to break cold wind and trap snow.
    Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The company says its solution allows solar panels to be integrated directly into the hood, bonnet, and roof of a vehicle.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 9 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The 44-year-old former pop singer, who claims he has been beaten, tasered, and attacked with teargas while campaigning against Museveni, is now rarely seen in public without a flak jacket and helmet.
    Nimi Princewill, CNN Money, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Vader will be unmistakable in his intimidating black armor and helmet.
    Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 14 Jan. 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 company says its solution allows solar panels to be integrated directly into the hood, bonnet, and roof of a vehicle.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Their baby daughter is in-between them, wearing a white bonnet, pink stockings and a plaid onesie.
    Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 6 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Looking back on the experience, Costner recalls his costume being too big for him and his turban falling off.
    Lori A Bashian , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Search and rescue teams were not able to relocate the missing man, who was wearing a white turban and a black shirt, shorts and vest.
    Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 25 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • So, after the sombrero drew hearty guffaws, my friend Jim busied himself finding monuments to chip-and-dip tastelessness.
    Lee Michael Katz, USA Today, 20 Dec. 2025
  • Also in the segment, Michael Che commented on Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who has overseen harsh immigration policies, celebrating her 54th birthday at a Mexican restaurant and at one point wearing a sombrero.
    William Vaillancourt, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Sutton Foster crochets Hugh Jackman a marching-band shako for the occasion.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 7 Jan. 2025
  • In black-and-white school photos from the early ’60s, Trump can be seen in boots, sash and a plumed shako, like some Austro-Hungarian infantryman.
    ROBERT F. WORTH, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2018
Noun
  • McCall’s banner also appears to cleverly usurp and subvert the aesthetics of European heraldry—indeed, its elegant design would look utterly correct on a beret, a medal, or a heater shield.
    Alex Jovanovich, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
  • Sartorially, Parisians are way beyond the cliché of a beret and a striped top, sipping café au lait at a sidewalk bistro.
    Gena Kaufman, InStyle, 30 Dec. 2025

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“Warbonnet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/warbonnet. Accessed 17 Jan. 2026.

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