headgear
Americannoun
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headgears
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any covering for the head, especially a hat, cap, bonnet, etc.
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a protective covering for the head, as a steel helmet or football helmet.
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the parts of a harness about the animal's head.
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Orthodontics Informal. a device worn on the head and attached by wires and elastic bands to braces in the mouth, used to create backward tension in the process of repositioning protruding teeth.
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Mining. a headframe and its machinery.
noun
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any head covering, esp a hat
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any part of a horse's harness that is worn on the head
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the hoisting mechanism at the pithead of a mine
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At times, diners will win don virtual reality headgear.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
And, while a technical marvel, the Apple Vision Pro "spacial computing" headgear launched in 2024 with a price tag of $3,500 and has made little traction in the market.
From Barron's ● Apr. 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
For centuries, appearing in public without the proper headgear was a faux pas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
One day, Gandhi later explained/'a man in tattered clothes, headgear in hand, two front teeth broken and his mouth bleeding, stood before me trembling and weeping.”
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
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
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
“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
"What is the matter with the headgears that John brought in?"
From The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen by Roger Thompson Finlay
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