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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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
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
Her mother patted her headgear, as if to ensure that it was still there.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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
While Brennan and Smith waited with the headgears John followed orders, returning to the basement when he believed he had talked to himself long enough to make the test accurate.
From Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles by James H. Richardson
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
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
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