headdress

[ hed-dres ]

/ ˈhɛdˌdrɛs /

a covering or decoration for the head: a tribal headdress of feathers.

a style or manner of arranging the hair.

Origin of headdress

First recorded in 1695–1705; head + dress

In 2007, a Dorset man brought a lawn statute featuring a recognizable Egyptian headdress to an expert for evaluation.

7 Historically Significant Artifacts Rescued by Happenstance |The Daily Beast |October 24, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
But some fashion-conscious Sikhs are reclaiming the individuality of their headdress.

Celebrating Sikh Style |Soraya Roberts |October 3, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
He said he thought it “seemed right” to put his “sailors” in the headdress after seeing images of Sikh turbans.

Celebrating Sikh Style |Soraya Roberts |October 3, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Her beige niqab (a conservative Islamic headdress that shows only the eyes) was stained from hours of crying.

The Morning After Egypt’s Rabaa Massacre |Sophia Jones |July 29, 2013 |DAILY BEAST

Gbowee shook her head—wrapped, as usual, in a colorful African headdress —and sighed.

'It's Made My Voice Louder' |Leslie Bennetts |October 8, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
A preposterous form of headdress arose in the time of Henry IV.

Women of England, Volume 9 (of 10) |Burleigh James Bartlett
They also suspend in the headdress an entire skin of the paroquet.

Early Western Travels 1748-1846, Volume XIV |Edwin James
He then put on the headdress and his ornamental clothes and stood up and asked his woman how he appeared in them.

Blackfeet Tales of Glacier National Park |James Willard Schultz
She herself removed her headdress, and one of her attendants gave her a cap into which she gathered her hair.

History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II. |James Anthony Froude
The woman was in a thick blue frieze cape and elaborate Sunday headdress.

A German Pompadour |Marie Hay

headdress

/ (ˈhɛdˌdrɛs) /

any head covering, esp an ornate one or one denoting a rank or occupation