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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

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

No ribbon falsified her blameless and implacable headgear; on her woolen head there was only the barest minimum of oil.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin

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

Simultaneously they pulled on their headgears and listened.

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

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

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




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