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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

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

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

If he weren’t a trauma doctor, you might chalk up the missing headgear to romantic imagery and an homage to “Then Came Bronson.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 6, 2026

No ribbon falsified her blameless and implacable headgear; on her woolen head there was only the barest minimum of oil.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin

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

"What is the matter with the headgears that John brought in?"

From The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen by Finlay, Roger Thompson

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

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

“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




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