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headgear

[hed-geer] / ˈhɛdˌgɪər /




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But if he visits an Orthodox synagogue this Shabbat, he can still see quite a few examples of his favored headgear —just the standard-issue black ones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

For him it’s the coolest headgear, even more so because his dad gave it to him, and it’s something he would wear on an average day, or for a press engagement like this.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2026

Part of the fault for the spinal injury lay with Tipping, who chose not to wear safety headgear before taking part in the training, McGuire argued.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026

Aisha adjusted her beige veil over her circular-shaped headgear as a matchmaker scrolled through rows of dozens of pictures on a computer to find a man she could be interested in as a potential match.

From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026

Mark could only catch a glimpse of a running shadow up ahead, but it looked like someone in one of the green suits they’d seen earlier, without the headgear.

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner

That’s when you don’t want to fight with those 10-ounce gloves or you don’t fight with those headgears.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 26, 2018

“The dark blue and white domes”—an allusion by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá to the rotund and massive headgears of the priests of Persia—had indeed been “inverted.”

From The Promised Day Is Come by Shoghi Effendi

Simultaneously they pulled on their headgears and listened.

From Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles by James H. Richardson

Proposing to count how many different headgears are to be seen in Bombay alone, we had to abandon the task as impracticable after a fortnight.

From From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

To the lusty men's voices and the rhythmic throbbing drum, they leap and rebound with feathered headgears waving.

From American Indian stories by Zitkala-Sa




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