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Head covering   /hɛd kˈəvərɪŋ/   Listen
Head covering

noun
1.
A garment that covers the head and face.  Synonym: veil.






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"Head covering" Quotes from Famous Books



... negros brought from the western part of Africa, and they provide us with adequate illustrations of Ethiopians as a group. In them the stature is above the average of men in general, specifically about five feet ten inches. The short jet-black hair is strikingly different from the head covering of the other great groups of human races; each individual hair is so flat in cross-section that it curls into a very tight close spiral, and this brings about a frizzly appearance of the whole head covering. There ...
— The Doctrine of Evolution - Its Basis and Its Scope • Henry Edward Crampton

... it is henceforth allowed that from Easter to All Saints' day, 'graduates may wear silken hoods,' instead of fur ones, 'old custom notwithstanding.' The M.A. hood, even in its present mutilated form, still presents survivals of the time when it was a real head covering, survivals which should prevent those who wear it from putting it on upside down, as many often do. The B.A. hood was already in the fifteenth century lined with lamb's wool or rabbit's fur, and the use of miniver by other than M.A.s and persons of birth or wealth[27] ...
— The Oxford Degree Ceremony • Joseph Wells



Words linked to "Head covering" :   face veil, garment, chuddar, yashmac, yashmak, chaddar, chadar, chador



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