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headdress, head covering or decoration, protective or ceremonial, which has been an important part of costume costume, distinctive forms of clothing, including official or ceremonial attire such as ecclesiastical vestments, coronation robes, academic gowns, armor, and theatrical dress.
..... Click the link for more information. since ancient times. Its style is governed in general by climate, available materials, religion or superstition, and the dictates of fashion. The most primitive form consisted of varied styles of hairdressing hairdressing, arranging of the hair for decorative, ceremonial, or symbolic reasons. Primitive men plastered their hair with clay and tied trophies and badges into it to represent their feats and qualities.
..... Click the link for more information. . Protective head coverings include the hat hat, headdress developed from the simple close-fitting cap and hood of antiquity. The first hat, which was distinguished as such by having a brim, was the felt petasus of the Greeks, which tied under the chin and was worn by travelers.
..... Click the link for more information. , cap, hood, helmet, wig wig, arrangement of artificial or human hair worn to conceal baldness, as a disguise, or as part of a costume, either theatrical, ceremonial, or fashionable.
..... Click the link for more information. , and veil veil, a feature of female costume from antiquity, especially in the East, where it was worn primarily to conceal the features. In modern times it is worn to enhance the face.
..... Click the link for more information. . Ceremonial headdress, which is often highly symbolic and steeped in tradition, includes all head coverings and headdressings that indicate rank, profession, or religion, as well as those worn in ritualistic ceremonies, games, and contests. Examples are the feathered war bonnet of the Native American, the peacock feathers of the Manchu, the Eastern turban, the Turkish fez, the cardinal's hat, the nun's coif and veil, the marriage crowns, the judge's wig, the academic cap (mortarboard), and many others.

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No references found	Look at our Anna Mikhaylovna- what a headdress she has on War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context Dame Aloise de Gondelaurier, a rich and noble woman, who held by the hand a pretty girl about five or six years of age, and dragged a long veil about, suspended to the golden horn of her headdress, halted as she passed the wooden bed, and gazed for a moment at the wretched creature, while her charming little daughter, Fleur-de-Lys de Gondelaurier, spelled out with her tiny, pretty finger, the permanent inscription attached to the wooden bed: "Foundlings. Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context The savage headdress of the Dyaks, the long, narrow, decorated shields, the flashing blades of parang and kris sent a shudder through the girl, so close they seemed beneath the schooner's side. The Monster Men by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context	head tide head unit head up head value Head, Bessie Head, Edith Head, Richard Head, Sir Edmund Walker Head, Sir Francis Bond head-banger head-hunting head-mounted display head-per-track head-per-track disk head-pulley-drive conveyor head-strict head-up display head/disk assembly Headache headache ball headache post headblock headboard headbox headcasting headdress Heade, Martin Heade, Martin Johnson Header header block header bond header course header duct header file header joist header label header record header tile header-high header-type boiler Headframe headgear headhouse headhunting Heading heading angle heading blasting heading bond heading chisel heading course heading joint	headbangers Headbangers Against Disco Headbanging Headbanging Headbanging headblock headboard headboard headboards headboards Headborough headbox Headbutt headbutted Headbutting Headbutts headcap headcase headcases headcasting HEADCC headcheese headcount headcount headcount Headcount Ratio headcounter headcounts headcounts HeADDFIRST headdress headdresses headdresses Heade, Martin Heade, Martin Johnson headed headed headed headed headed Headed & Gutted Headed Anchor Studs Headed and Gutted headed for headed for headed for headed for headed for Headed notepaper headed off headed off headed off headed off headed off at the pass headed off at the pass headed off at the pass headed off at the pass headed up headed up headed up headed up

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Look at our Anna Mikhaylovna- what a headdress she has on

War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

Dame Aloise de Gondelaurier, a rich and noble woman, who held by the hand a pretty girl about five or six years of age, and dragged a long veil about, suspended to the golden horn of her headdress, halted as she passed the wooden bed, and gazed for a moment at the wretched creature, while her charming little daughter, Fleur-de-Lys de Gondelaurier, spelled out with her tiny, pretty finger, the permanent inscription attached to the wooden bed: "Foundlings.

Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context

The savage headdress of the Dyaks, the long, narrow, decorated shields, the flashing blades of parang and kris sent a shudder through the girl, so close they seemed beneath the schooner's side.

The Monster Men by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context

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