The reticulated headdress or net, made of gold or silver wire, in which ladies in the Middle Ages confined their hair.
Costume) (a) A headdress like a cap, with long lappets.
A headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high headdress.
Defn: A plain cap or headdress for women or girls; especially, one tying under the chin by a very broad band, generally of the same material as the cap itself.
That part of a headdress that is in front; the top of a periwig.
Defn: A headdress of false hair, usually covering the whole head, and representing the natural hair; a wig.
The head is decorated with a single plume which springs from a circular ornament placed over the ear; an angular figure extends forward from the base of this plume, and probably represents what is left of the headdress proper.
They can be identified by their special costume, the loose surplice of linen with wide sleeves covering the cassock, and by the "amice," a headdress of thick black stuff with a flat top and terminating on each corner in a kind of horn.
The Sultan, riding on a golden saddle, wears a habit embroidered with sapphires, and on his pointed headdress a large diamond; he also carries a suit of gold armour inlaid with sapphires, and three swords mounted in gold.
Couto states that this diamond was one which the king had affixed to the base of the plume on his horse's headdress (Dec.
But White Bear knew that the chief in the buffalo headdress was speaking the truth.
The face under the buffalo headdresswas as still as if carved from wood.
He wore his glossy black hair long under an impressive buffalo headdress with gleaming horns, and had wrapped himself in a buffalo-hide robe painted with sunbursts.
Fleetfoot wished that he could have a headdress and take part in the dance.
Others put on reindeer suits without the headdress of antlers.
The figure above the winter mark shows the Pawnee boy, distinguished by the peculiarheaddress of his tribe, holding the bay (red) horse by the halter.
The figure beside the medicine lodge represents a man with the feather headdress and paint of the Ka'itsenko, the chief order of the warrior society.
The headdress is like that hitherto used to indicate a Pawnee, both tribes wearing the head shaved, leaving a crest.
The event is indicated on the Anko calendar by means of a figure above the medicine lodge representing a man with the Kaitsenko headdress and sash.
The entire Cub organization had been incriminated on the basis of two pieces of evidence--the finding of the Wolf Cub badge near the dead pheasants, and the thoughtless display of the Indian headdress by Chips and Red.
Upon their return, both the boat and the headdress had floated away.
You and Chips showed that Indian feather headdress around at the village and elsewhere?
Admittedly, the elaborate feather headdress made by Chips and Red, was by far the best article so far turned out by Den 2.
Then you think we shouldn't enter the headdress in the handicraft show?
The boat may be found, but the headdress is sure to be a mess after lying out all night in the weather.
Hiding the headdress now would only tend to confirm suspicions.
In the absence of the Pack Cubmaster, Mr. Hatfield, his assistant, donned a blanket and Indian headdress in preparation for conducting the ceremony.
The Indian headdress was lying on the seat when it floated away.
A form of divine headdress was a cap enclosed in horns, between which appeared the soaring lion-headed eagle, which symbolized Nin-Girsu.
The god wears a conical headdress and a flounced robe suspended from his left shoulder, while the king has assumed a round dome-shaped hat and a flowing garment which almost sweeps the ground.
If not in uniform and covered, they shall uncover at the first note of the anthem, holding the headdress opposite the left shoulder and so remain until its close, except that in inclement weather the headdress may be slightly raised.
In the absence of signal flags, the headdressor other substitute may be used.
In quarters, headdress and accouterments are removed and the men stand near their respective bunks; in camp they stand covered, but without accourterments, in front of their tents.
In making firm signals the saber, rifle, or headdressmay be held in the hand.
Up to the very last he went about with his loved flintlock gun, trapping beavers and shooting an occasional deer.
The Crows had no traps, but nevertheless they kept gathering in nearly as many beaver pelts as we did with traps, simply by careful stalking, and long waiting, and good shooting with bow and arrows.
Then she recognized a Mongol headdress similar to her own.
Isabeau was splendidly dressed in long robes and an enormousheaddress with horns, covered with jewels.
She wears a red robe trimmed with fur, a tight corsage partly of blue velvet and a high headdressornamented with gold and jewels.
His eyes, used to the dark of the room, fell upon a great headdress of twisted buffalo horns, profusely decorated with feathers.
Then he threw the headdress into a creek, hoping that it would float away with the current, but, thinking he would have further use for it, he kept the painted coat.
The great headdress of twisted buffalo horns was heavy and the big painted buffalo coat flapped around him, but he would not discard them yet.
He gave a final touch to the headdress and the buffalo robe.
The headdress of loops of narrow blue velvet ribbon fixed on each side of the head.
Priestly Codex of the Pentateuch the headdress of the high priest (Exod.
On the platform below we found the head and shoulders, a fine piece of carving: legs, body and arms were smashed almost past recognition, and the feathered headdress had entirely disappeared.
Its head is half turned, and its features and headdress are those of the Atlantean statuettes.
The attitude is placid and dignified like a Buddha statue; the face, now mutilated, is crowned by an enormous headdress of peculiar style, presenting a fantastic head with a diadem and medallion topped by feathers .
They have the square, severe Egyptian headdress and fillet, and so closely resemble in features and general appearance the Sphinx-forms of Egyptian mythology that one starts back in amazement on first seeing them.
There is not a single sign of a warrior or the feathered headdress common in all the monuments of Yucatan.
The headdress differs from most of the others at Palenque in that it wants the plume of feathers" (Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan, vol.
The headdress is a white oblong cloth, about six inches wide and about eighteen inches long.
A preposterous form ofheaddress arose in the time of Henry IV.
If not in uniform and covered they shall uncover at the first note of the anthem, holding the headdress opposite the left shoulder and so remain until its close, except that in inclement weather the headdress may be slightly raised.
If you, wearing civilian dress, pass them, uncover and hold the headdressopposite the left shoulder with the right hand.
Who is yonder queer person in the high headdress of my grandmother's time, who stops and speaks to Mr. Richardson?
Madam was a little chit of a woman, not five feet in her highest headdress and shoes, and Mr. Washington a great tall man of six feet two.
She had presence of mind enough to disguise her alarm by a fit of coughing, bending nearly double and covering the lower part of her face with the ends of the headdress folded over.
The headdress of the married woman is not the tiara of the maid, but some kind of plain or ornamental stuff wound round the head in the form of a turban, and with ends falling gracefully down on the shoulders.
Their headdress is generally a shawl gracefully twisted into the form of the turban; while their hands, fingers, and ears are always decorated with ornaments of gold and silver.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "headdress" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cap; coif; hat; headdress; headgear; headpiece; lid; millinery; natural; permanent; process; wave
