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How can you use “headdress” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Each warrior is an individual, with his own headdress, moustache or beard, and unique expression.
Our popular image of the North American Indian is conditioned by Hollywood’s stereotype — feather headdress, necklace of scalps, and whooping war dances around the campfire — which in fact derived from the prairie tribes, or Plains Indians, as they are known to American anthropologists.
Even in the vast open spaces of the Rajasthan desert or the Deccan plateau of central India, people appear everywhere, a tribesman on camel-back or lone woman holding her headdress in her teeth to keep out the dust as she carries a huge pitcher of water or a bundle of firewood on her head.
Where Archers suggests the light-footed world of dreams, the grotesque mask situated among the Ideal Heads in the first room--its headdress borrowed, it seems, from the Statue of Liberty--evokes an earthbound world where the human and animal realms are not easily distinguished.
They know by style of face-painting and headdress where a singsing dancer is from, and they can look at designs on carvings or woven string bags and say where the work originated.