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headdress

[hed-dres] / ˈhɛdˌdrɛs /


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Even more important, India and Kashmir control the headstreams of the five great rivers that water Pakistan's granary: the fertile Punjab.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sudan was Cairo's fief in the days before the Mahdi; more important, it controls the headstreams of the Nile.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ethnically connected with the Kuki-Naga groups are the Kakhyens of the Irawadi headstreams, and the Karens, who form numerous village communities about the Burma-Siamese borderland.

From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court

Diamonds have been discovered in the Thika river, one of the headstreams of the Tana.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various

Among and about the headstreams and tributaries of this mighty river lie the wide and fertile provinces of the Egyptian Soudan.

From The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan by Churchill, Winston




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