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headcloth

[ hed-klawth, -kloth ]

noun

plural headcloths
  1. any cloth for covering the head, as a turban or wimple.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of headcloth1

before 1000; Middle English he ( v ) ed cloth; Old English hēafod clath; head, cloth
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Example Sentences

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When I can remember to be a good Congolese wife, I tie it up in a headcloth.

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The cabin door opened and Dilsey emerged, again in the maroon cape and the purple gown, and wearing soiled white elbow-length gloves and minus her headcloth now.

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Most of the knots fixed that morning had loosened under her headcloth and were now cupfuls of soft wool her fingers thrilled to.

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And the carpenter's wife in the Miller's Tale wears something called a "voluper" which seems to have been a white headcloth with tapes attached.

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Millicent Wanjiku Kuria, a middle-aged widow, beams under an orange headcloth.

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