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headgear

[hed-geer] / ˈhɛdˌgɪər /




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Out on the water, Joe Souza of Long Beach adjusted his blinged-out headgear, hollering that he’d been coming to Guerneville every summer for more than 20 years.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

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

Trainers clad in ornate uniforms and traditional white fur headgear led golden-bedecked stallions round a stage arena at an annual horse beauty pageant in the ultra-closed Central Asian state of Turkmenistan.

From Barron's Jun. 5, 2026

His headgear choice upset many in Canada - a Commonwealth nation- who criticised him for not showing his allegiance to the realm, or to the only Canadian team in Major League Baseball.

From BBC Nov. 6, 2025

Fishermen who are the descendants of the Heike dress in hemp and black headgear and proceed to the Akama shrine which contains the mausoleum of the drowned Emperor.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

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

There is still a trace of the cockade as a badge in certain military headgears in England and elsewhere.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various

Simultaneously they pulled on their headgears and listened.

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




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