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noun

Headpiece n.

Head. "In his headpiece he felt a sore pain."

A cap of defense; especially, an open one, as distinguished from the closed helmet of the Middle Ages.

Understanding; mental faculty. "Eumenes had the best headpiece of all Alexander's captains."

An engraved ornament at the head of a chapter, or of a page.

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Etymology of 'Headpiece'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Headpiece" Quotes from Famous Books

... by him; but he said: Do this also for me, take off thine headpiece, since now that we know thee for a woman it serveth thee nought. So did she, and began her tale straightway, and told him all thereof, save as to the wood-wife, and he sat hearkening and watching her face; ...

— The Water of the Wondrous Isles • William Morris

... He girt him with his sword, Excalibur. Mighty was the glaive, and long in the blade. It was forged in the Isle of Avalon, and he who brandished it naked in his hand deemed himself a happy man. His helmet gleamed upon his head. The nasal was of gold; circlets of gold adorned the headpiece, with many a clear stone, and a dragon was fashioned for its crest. This helm had once been worn by Uther, his sire. The king was mounted on a destrier, passing fair, strong, and speedy, loving well the ...

— Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut • Wace

... and, replacing his battered headpiece, with double-handed indecent haste the knight of the road executed an incredibly nimble "right-about turn" and vanished behind the station-house. Just then came the engine's toot! toot!, the conductor's warning "All aboar-rd!" and the train started ...

— The Luck of the Mounted - A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police • Ralph S. Kendall

... and not at all like the chandoo-khanas where the niggers go. No; it was clean and quiet, and not crowded. Of course, there were others beside us ten and the man; but we always had a mat apiece, with a wadded woolen headpiece, all covered with black and red dragons and things; just like ...

— Indian Tales • Rudyard Kipling

... disrobed, at length emerged from the sanctuary in his everyday costume of black cassock and tall cylindrical headpiece; when Iskender knelt before him with choice blessings, and implored his aid. In the shadow, with eyes yet dazzled from the radiance of the tapers he had just extinguished, Mitri could not make out who it was, but holding the suppliant's ...

— The Valley of the Kings • Marmaduke Pickthall

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