Plural of headdress
regular plural
The plural of headdress is headdresses.
Forms of headdress
| Singular | headdress /ˈhɛdˌdɹɛs/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | headdresses |
| Countable | countable |
Headdresses in a sentence
- There were also the gold-embroidered sleeveless jackets, farmla, and a range of headdresses, qufiya, which have been mentioned briefly elsewhere.1985, Caroline Stone, The Embroideries of North Africa, Longman Publishing Group. From the entry farmla
- "The other dancers, in feather headdresses, are angels who will fight them, drive them away, so the day will be lucky and devilless."1940, William La Varre, Southward ho!: A treasure hunter in South America. From the entry devilless
- Big fellows they were, all of them, their barbaric headdresses and grotesquely painted faces, together with their many metal ornaments and gorgeously coloured feathers, adding to their wild, fierce appearance.1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter V, in The Beasts of Tarzan. From the entry feather
Meaning of headdress
- noun A decorative covering or ornament worn on the head.
- noun A hairdo.
Questions about the plural of headdress
- What is the plural of headdress?
- The plural of headdress is headdresses.
- Is headdress countable?
- Headdress is a countable noun.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: headdress (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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