headdress

English

Alternative forms

• head-dress, head dress

Etymology

From head +‎ dress.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhɛdˌdɹɛs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

headdress (plural headdresses)

1. A decorative covering or ornament worn on the head.
2. A hairdo. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Synonyms

• (an covering or ornament worn on the head): headgear

Derived terms

• headdressed

Translations

a decorative covering or ornament worn on the head

• Albanian: kezë (sq)
• Danish: hovedbeklædning c
• Esperanto: kapvesto
• Finnish: päähine (fi)
• French: couvre-chef (fr) m
• German: Kopfbedeckung (de) f

  Middle High German: gebende n

• Hindi: शिरोभूषण (hi) (śirobhūṣaṇ)
• Hungarian: fejdísz (hu), fejék (hu)
• Icelandic: höfuðbúnaður m
• Indonesian: bulang (id)
• Irish: ceannbheart m or f
• Kazakh: бас киім (bas kiım)
• Korean: 헤드드레스 (hedeudeureseu)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: پۆتەڵاک (potellak)

• Māori: hutukawa
• Mapudungun: perkiñ
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hodepryd m

• Old English: hēafodclāþ n
• Polish: nakrycie głowy (pl) n
• Russian: головно́й убо́р (ru) m (golovnój ubór)
• Spanish: tocado (es) m, escofia f, cofia (es) f
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: باشلق (başlık), سرپوش (serpuş)

• Yámana: yakamuš-uška

hairdo — see hairdo