"headdress" meaning in English

See headdress in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: headdresses [plural]
Etymology: From head + dress. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|head|dress}} head + dress Head templates: {{en-noun}} headdress (plural headdresses)
  1. A decorative covering or ornament worn on the head. Categories (topical): Headwear Synonyms (an covering or ornament worn on the head): headgear Translations (a decorative covering or ornament worn on the head): kezë (Albanian), پۆتەڵاک (potellak) (Central Kurdish), hovedbeklædning [common-gender] (Danish), päähine (Finnish), couvre-chef [masculine] (French), Kopfbedeckung [feminine] (German), शिरोभूषण (śirobhūṣaṇ) (Hindi), fejdísz (Hungarian), fejék (Hungarian), höfuðbúnaður [masculine] (Icelandic), bulang (Indonesian), ceannbheart [feminine, masculine] (Irish), бас киім (bas kiım) (Kazakh), hutukawa (Maori), perkiñ (Mapudungun), gebende [neuter] (Middle High German), hodepryd [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), hēafodclāþ [neuter] (Old English), باشلق (başlık) (Ottoman Turkish), سرپوش (serpuş) (Ottoman Turkish), nakrycie głowy [neuter] (Polish), головно́й убо́р (golovnój ubór) [masculine] (Russian), tocado [masculine] (Spanish), escofia [feminine] (Spanish), cofia [feminine] (Spanish), yakamuš-uška (Yámana)
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  2. A hairdo. Categories (topical): Hair
    Sense id: en-headdress-en-noun-QudCkaME Disambiguation of Hair: 40 60
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: head-dress, head dress

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "головно́й убо́р"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a decorative covering or ornament worn on the head",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tocado"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a decorative covering or ornament worn on the head",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "escofia"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a decorative covering or ornament worn on the head",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cofia"
    },
    {
      "code": "yag",
      "lang": "Yámana",
      "sense": "a decorative covering or ornament worn on the head",
      "word": "yakamuš-uška"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "headdress"
  ],
  "word": "headdress"
}

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