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headgear

[hed-geer] / ˈhɛdˌgɪər /




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Sonny Angels are three-inch plastic dolls that are generally naked, except for themed headgear and costumes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

At times, diners will win don virtual reality headgear.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 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

For centuries, appearing in public without the proper headgear was a faux pas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

He holds up some sort of metal headgear that I instantly name the head shackle.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

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

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

“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

Many of the elderly society ladies wore immense headgears like turbans, with sometimes one or two marabou feathers, which were considered extremely elegant.

From A Little Girl in Old Boston by Amanda Minnie Douglas

Simultaneously they pulled on their headgears and listened.

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




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