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Example sentences for "headdresses"

Lexicographically close words:
headbands; headboard; headboards; headborough; headdress; heade; headed; headedness; header; headers
  1. Brilliant colored blankets hung from the walls, feather headdresses with what Vi called "trails," so that when a man wore one the tail of it dragged to his heels.

  2. Their headdresses nodded, and, as the redmen rode nearer, the children saw that their faces were broadly striped in red and yellow.

  3. Being of the royal impis, they wore the great white headdresses and carried shields with the king's mark emblazoned thereon.

  4. I could glimpse thousands of headdresses above the grass, however, and there appeared to be a bank of men on the ground surrounding the kraals.

  5. The spectators consisted of two groups of women, who sat some distance apart in compact masses, the "horns" of their headdresses almost interlocked.

  6. The headdresses of the southern women are by no means as elaborate as those in the north.

  7. These men are naked except that they wear masks, strange and grotesque, and great flaring headdresses in many colors.

  8. Crow-skin headdresses are also worn by young warriors, and owl feathers are worn by new beginners.

  9. The green headdresses waved like reeds before the wind, and the whole space looked like a rhythmically wafted cornfield.

  10. Approaching a landing, they were met by Indian archers wearing feather headdresses and comporting themselves in a threatening manner; but these were pacified by the two Indians brought from the watering-place.

  11. The sacristy of this astonishing cathedral contains in a series of pasteboard boxes, all the sumptuous costumes for the actors in the Empress's theatre, with many fashionable headdresses of former times.

  12. All these headdresses were made of slats of the Spanish bayonet, unpainted, excepting that on number two was a figure in black, which could not be made out, and that the horizontal crosspieces on number three were painted blue.

  13. The headdresses worn by the gods of the American Indians and the priests or medicine-men who served them were persistently called "miters" by the early Spanish writers.

  14. Between us and that refuge dead men lay here and there, stiff and stark, with the black paint upon them, and the coloured feathers of their headdresses red or blue against the sand.

  15. Their headdresses were tall and wonderful, their leggings and moccasins fringed with scalp locks; their hatchets glinted in the sunshine, and their quivers were stuck full of arrows.

  16. The tall headdresses made giants of them all; as they leaped and danced in the glare of the fire they had a fiendish look.

  17. Between us and that refuge dead men lay here and there, stiff and stark, with the black paint upon them, and the colored feathers of their headdresses red or blue against the sand.

  18. At the summons of a rude drum that made a startling noise, the braves rose, threw down their blankets and displayed their holiday attire of paint, fringes, beads, and dressed deerskins with great headdresses of feathers.

  19. The confusion was heightened by the cries and the dancing feather headdresses that might have been a flock of giant birds.

  20. These effigies were carved in the shape of human beings, with enormous goggle eyes, splashes of bright paint, and strange and immense headdresses of brilliant colors.

  21. Mourning New Zealanders tie a red cloth round the head or wear headdresses of dark feathers.

  22. Elaborate gowns and headdresses were gathered; beads and jewels of all descriptions were made from brilliantly colored papers.

  23. Bright-colored sashes and headdresses they brought from home.

  24. Their headdresses were of fine palm materials, decorated, and a knit haversack formed a shoulder-piece for each man.

  25. An idea of how the dentalium shells may have been used as ornaments on arm bands and headdresses may be had by reference to Fig.

  26. These headdresses may be compared to similar designs in the petroglyphs (Plate XI) at Sentinal Bluffs, thirty-three miles to the northeast (Fig.

  27. Plate xv shows human heads with feather headdresses in white and a double star figure in white and red.

  28. Plate XVI[362] shows human heads with feather headdresses in white and red.

  29. Petroglyphs, pictographs in white, and representations of feather headdresses were not found among the archaeological objects in the Thompson region.

  30. All of these headdresses remind us of the others at this place shown in Fig.

  31. Many of the paintings represent human heads and headdresses and one of them the whole figure with such a headdress.

  32. Traces of the headdresses remain as a few feathers above each forehead.

  33. Some of the headdresses of the priests were shaped like a bishop's miter, while others resembled the Egyptian headdress.

  34. Druse was to wait by the station, with long headdresses which should be disguise enough for the moment, because in the darkness a passerby could only see us as silhouetted outlines.

  35. These Hours shall be painted with the vestments, garlands, and headdresses of virgins, and winged, with the hands full of flowers, as if they were scattering these about.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "headdresses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.