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
An Overachiever for the Underdog When members of the Stop B2H coalition gather in Gilbert’s living room, a computerized display of properties in the path of the project sits on a chair just beneath a portrait of a Native American man in a headdress of fur and bison horns.
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Tony Schick, ProPublica, 14 Aug. 2025
For her 2005 tour, Kylie Minogue performed at least four songs in a leotard dripping in crystals, a giant feather bustle and an enormous feather headdress.
—Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2025
She’s dressed as Joan of Arc in a suit of armor, been the Statue of Liberty complete with spiky headdress.
—Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 8 Aug. 2025
Nothing new was added to her typical visage, allowing for her cabaret headdress to take center stage.
—Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
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Tony Schick, ProPublica, 14 Aug. 2025
For her 2005 tour, Kylie Minogue performed at least four songs in a leotard dripping in crystals, a giant feather bustle and an enormous feather headdress.
—Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2025
She’s dressed as Joan of Arc in a suit of armor, been the Statue of Liberty complete with spiky headdress.
—Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 8 Aug. 2025
Nothing new was added to her typical visage, allowing for her cabaret headdress to take center stage.
—Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for headdress
Noun
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In another video, Twiggs appears to be seen wearing a yellow hat with ears opening a cookie tin.—
Marni Rose McFall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
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It’s also made the industry lazier and more reliant on us to wear all the hats.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Airlines can’t impose arbitrary refund caps based on fare class in that situation.—
Christopher Elliott,
Mercury News,
20 Sep. 2025
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Less comfortable, but much, much funnier are the old-timey swim caps adorned with colorful rubber flowers.—
Peter Larsen,
Oc Register,
19 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The camera department also attached RED Komodo cameras to Withers to capture his perspective during intense sports scenes, and at other moments simply attached a football helmet to the lens and had Wayans yell into it to replicate Cam’s point of view.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
19 Sep. 2025
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The Kylo Ren helmet sits at the top of our best Lego Star Wars helmets page thanks to its striking and stunning look and its noticeable lack of stickers.—
Alexander Cox,
Space.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Headdress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/headdress. Accessed 22 Sep. 2025.
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