Example sentences for: headdress

How can you use “headdress” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Through happier times the village has built a reputation for weaving and embroidery — still sold in the lower town — as well as for its lyre players, and this is one place where you are sure to see men in their traditional costume of high leather boots, britches, and headdress.

  • Each warrior is an individual, with his own headdress, moustache or beard, and unique expression.


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