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
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
And, while a technical marvel, Apple Vision Pro "spacial computing" headgear, with a price tag of $3,500, has little traction in the market.
From Barron's ● Apr. 20, 2026
But the BBC compared his body armour, riot shield and headgear with that of every police officer at the scene.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2025
“Maybe you need a haircut,” he countered, cramming the bulky headgear into place.
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
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
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
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
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
Simultaneously they pulled on their headgears and listened.
From Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles by James H. Richardson
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