Word: headdressed
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Then, before the image of the Virgin in a little chapel, Clare exchanged her bright dress for a rough wool robe, her jeweled belt for a knotted rope, her high headdress for a black veil. Francis himself cropped off her golden hair...
...raining in London on coronation day. Instead of withdrawing into the shelter of her coach like most notables in the long procession from Westminster Abbey, Queen Salote sat in the drenching downpour, a massive (6 ft. 3 in., 280 Ibs.), broad-faced woman in red robes and a headdress from which two feathers stuck stiffly upright; she beamed, waved, mopped rain from her face with a handkerchief, beamed again. The soaked, footsore crowd who had waited interminable hours to see the procession instantly warmed to Queen" Salote...
...carried a picture of the Pentagon chiefs saluting the colors. Three of them [in civilian dress] are rendering the salute strictly in accord with Section 5 of Public Law 829 (commonly referred to as the flag law). This . . . states in part: "... When not in uniform, men should remove the headdress with the right hand, holding it at the left shoulder, the hand being over the heart. Men without hats should salute in the same manner...
...initiated at once. She must appear, smiling as befits a public darling, at not one but two inaugural balls. Her costume, however, will be far less regal than that of President Tyler's second wife, "the Rose of Long Island," who received on a dais, wearing a crownlike headdress of bugles: Mamie's glittering, wide-skirted inaugural gown, designed by Nettie Rosenstein and purchased from Texas' Neiman-Marcus, is of pale rose poult-de-soie, bespangled by 2,000 rhinestones in varying shades of pink. Mrs. Eisenhower's junior partners as official Washington hostesses...
...corner of the ultramodern glass and stone library, a group of Indian warriors in full headdress proffered bunches of cigars. There was a dumpy "Punch," a tailor's gentleman in checked coat and torpedo beard, a handsome mermaid from the stern of an old sailing ship and a jaunty figure labeled "Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines" extolling "World's Fair Cut Plug -Five Cents." Said a student engineer: "This is the kind of art I can appreciate...