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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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The shirts include an outline of the pope’s tall mitre headdress above the White Sox baseball player logo.
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Bill Kirkos, CNN Money, 21 July 2025
In 1997, the blue-eyed, red-haired goddess accented her look with gold shimmer, a headdress, and defined contour.
—India Espy-Jones, Essence, 11 July 2025
The origins of the symbolism of early headdresses, diadems, or circlets to denote authority have been lost, but the use of a crown in coronation was probably linked in origin to the coronation of popes.
—Madison Dapcevich, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2025
Wearing tulle headdresses, beanies, skull caps, scarfs, fedoras, even floppy gardening numbers, Abdi proved that modern style can be inclusive and pioneering and bold and so glamorous all at the same time.
—Courtney Crowder, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2025
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Bill Kirkos, CNN Money, 21 July 2025
In 1997, the blue-eyed, red-haired goddess accented her look with gold shimmer, a headdress, and defined contour.
—India Espy-Jones, Essence, 11 July 2025
The origins of the symbolism of early headdresses, diadems, or circlets to denote authority have been lost, but the use of a crown in coronation was probably linked in origin to the coronation of popes.
—Madison Dapcevich, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2025
Wearing tulle headdresses, beanies, skull caps, scarfs, fedoras, even floppy gardening numbers, Abdi proved that modern style can be inclusive and pioneering and bold and so glamorous all at the same time.
—Courtney Crowder, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2025
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“Headdress.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/headdress. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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headdress
noun
head·dress
ˈhed-ˌdres 
: a covering or ornament for the head
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