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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Origin of headgear
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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
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
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
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
Former jockey Morris Griffin, who was paralyzed in a 1946 racing fall, likened his headgear to a yarmulke.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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
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
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
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
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