Hats and Headdress

feathers worn in hair in a spray-like manner.

a square cap with three ridges on top worn by clergyman especially of the Roman Catholic Church.

• a military full-dress fur hat with a pendant bag on the side usually of the color of regimental facing.
• The bearskin worn by British guardsmen.

a woman’s ornate cap popular in the late 17^th and early 18^th centuries.

a soft cap with a stiff brim on the front, which may be flat or curved. It may also have a plastic strip at the back so the cap can be adjusted to the head size of the wearer.

a wide-brimmedb hat with a large soft crown.

a royal or imperial headdress or cap of sovereignty

mock crown made of thorn branches by the Romans. Jesus of Nazareth was crowned with it prior to the crucifixion.

a man’s stiff felt hat with dome-shaped crown and narrow brim.

a brimless cone-shaped flat-crowned hat that usually has a tassel, is usually made of red felt, and is worn especially by men in eastern Mediterranean Counties.

a ribbon or narrow strip of material used especially as a headband.

a mask connected to a chemical air filter and used to protect the face and lungs against poison gases.

a woolen cap of Scottish origin.

a hair pin worn usually by women to hold hair in place.

a covering for the head usually having a shaped crown and brim.

a band worn on or around the head.

any of various protective head coverings usually made of a hard material to resist ipact.

a man’s felt hat with a stiff curled brim and a high crown creased lengthwise.

crown of laurel leaves in ancient Greece and Rome. It symbolized victory.

a cover or partial cover for the face used disguise or protection.

an academic cap consisting of a closely fitting headpiece with a broad flat projecting square top.

an indication asa circle of radiant light or glory about the head of a drawn or sculptured divinity, saint, or sovereign.

a device worn over the nose and mouth through which oxygen is supplied from a storage tank.

any of several hats made from paper.

a type of wig popular from the 17^th to the early 19^th century.

a broad-brimed low-crowned hat worn by ancient Greeks and Romans.

a stiff military hat with a high crown and plume in Hungary in the 19^th century.

a high-crowned hat of felt or straw with a very wide brim worn especially in the Southwest USA and Mexico.

a waterproof hat with wide slanting brim longer in back than in front.

a decorative jeweled or flowered headband or semicircle for formal wear by women.

see COWBOY HAT

a headdress worn chiefly in countries of the eastern Mediterranean and southern Asia especially by Muslims and made of a cap around which is wound a long cloth.

a manufactured covering of natural or synthetic hair for the head.

a cloth-covering worn outdoors over the head and around the neck and chin especially by women in the late medieval period and by some nuns.

Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary

G. & C. Merriam Company

Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

1980.