(n.) A covering or ornament for the head; a headtire.
(n.) A manner of dressing the hair or of adorning it, whether with or without a veil, ribbons, combs, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Glastonbury has agreed to restrict the sale of Native American-style headdresses at their 2015 event.
(2) Saira, one of his several targets, is petite, though the wedge sandals and feather headdress may mislead at first.
(3) The Glastonbury website has since listed “Indian headdresses”, alongside cigarettes, candle flares and flags as items not to be sold in its traders section “without prior authorisation or discussion with the markets’ management”.
(4) She had a strong physical presence - reinforced by a variety of African headdresses and garments - a booming voice and laughed a lot.
(5) His recent discoveries include The Fabulus Of Unicorns , a troop of apparently polyamorous performers in horned headdresses, who are also one of the acts appearing at Guilty Pleasures’ newest venture, The Mighty Hoop-La , a festivalesque weekender that’s bringing some dazzle and dancing to Bognor Regis at the end of February.
(6) I think we all feel a huge sense of responsibility to do the right thing by him.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bird’s nest headdress with Swarovski gemstones.
(7) If somebody came to me today – provided they weren’t wearing Arab headdress – and said the approach was on behalf of News Corp and … they wanted an ethical lawyer to come in and check they weren’t doing anything wrong, and there was a £5m sign-up fee, I’d probably do due diligence.” In July, Mahmood was suspended by the News of the World’s replacement title, the Sun on Sunday, owned by News UK, following the collapse of a trial involving the singer and former X-Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos .
(8) All three men are wearing traditional ghoutra headdresses and flowing robes.
(9) The clothes – a wedding headdress like an amphibian mating display, scarlet armour striated with sinews – were certainly more dramatic than the actors, and won Ishioka an Oscar.
(10) Dressed in a white dress trimmed with gold and a sparkling gold headdress, she sang her intro numbers with her knees bent and her head thrown back, undulating her crotch in a circular motion at the audience.
(11) But on Wednesday Ipso ruled that in the context of the attack, MacKenzie had a right to question Manji’s headdress under free speech.
(12) Stone is painted black in four of the pictures; in all she is styled to look suitably "ethnic", with accessories including a silk fringed headscarf and a black feathered headdress, just in case the message of black skin equals exotic otherness was too subtle.
(13) The headdress, rather than the dress covering the body, is special to the sufis; it is a long hat made to resemble the male generative organ.
(14) This article was amended on 15 October to correct the fact that headdresses may not be sold “without prior authorisation or discussion with the markets’ management” rather than banning the headdress from sale altogether.
(15) That melodramatic, all-over-the-shop approach to vocal melody just screamed “hippy” at me, and seemed to be the aural equivalent of shawls, beads, headdresses and candles, all of which I suspected Kate Bush was wearing or surrounded by while she recorded the vocal.
(16) Although it is only one UK festival, I hope that if we spread the news of Glastonbury’s decision online, positive discussions about the stereotyping of Native Americans and the headdress will grow in the UK and elsewhere.” Despite this concession, the festival has not followed all of the suggestions in Round’s petition: he also called on organisers to make “an official statement about the issue”, broaching a conversation that could “foster understanding and facilitate positive shifts in attitudes”.
(17) "We asked for a shabono , [a traditional gathering place for Venezuela's indigenous Yanomami] and we got a football stadium that not only looks like a shabono but has a rooftop that is inspired by the traditional penacho [headdress]," said Rodríguez of the 55,000-seat venue with sliding yellow, blue and red panels.
(18) One by one, the tribal leaders of the Brazilian Xingu took to their feet, wearing yellow and red feather headdresses and clutching thick wooden clubs and spears.
(19) When she reappears, she wears the traditional headdress which symbolises that a girl is now recognised as a woman.
(20) • Morning Gloryville is monthly at Oval Space, London, 24 February (tickets from £16) , morninggloryville.com Savage Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Yiannis Mouzakitis Not so long ago you could go to any number of nights in London and come across remarkably dressed club creatures in face paint, DIY headdresses, Spandex jumpsuits, household items – anything as long as it was somehow fabulous and Leigh Bowery would have approved.
Readdress
Definition:
(v. t.) To address a second time; -- often used reflexively.
Example Sentences:
(1) High-performance liquid chromatography of small amounts of protein was readdressed with respect to current gas-phase sequencing technology.
(2) We conclude that a low maintenance dose of CsA provides effective immunosuppression, thereby preventing aneurysm formation, and that the potential use of arterial allografts in vascular surgery may need to be readdressed.
(3) The aim was to readdress the issue of lactotroph sensitivity using a study designed to minimize the problem arising from diurnal PRL changes.
(4) This issue was readdressed in a like group of 100 patients from the same surgical unit three and a half years later, in 1990, to ascertain whether risk factor management had improved over the period.
(5) Our data indicate a need to openly readdress these issues.
(6) The present study was done to readdress the possibility of direct coupling of water and urea transport in the rat IMCD.
(7) If and when the Chagossians are repatriated, then the protection of the seas around the archipelago will need to be readdressed, and yes, that may well involve allowing fishing by the islanders."
(8) The results are discussed in terms of the importance of AII in mediating isoproterenol-, serotonin-, and 5-hydroxytryptophan-induced water intake and suggest a need to readdress this mechanism.
(9) Same-sex marriage: disappointment and anger as Coalition party room rejects free vote Read more “The party room has expressed a very strong view,” Abetz said, adding that Entsch’s decision to readdress the issue was “not the actions” to promote unity within the party.
(10) To readdress this issue and to examine the possibility of whether these cells produce immature and untranslatable beta-globin RNA transcripts, we prepared total cytoplasmic RNA from control and inducer-treated cells and performed Northern blot hybridization analysis using 5' end-labeled fragments of the human beta-globin DNA rather than 3' end fragments as probes.
(11) The improved prognosis for life in retinoblastoma challenges us to readdress the severe morbidity associated with late presentation and treatment, particularly in unilateral disease.
(12) To readdress this apparent disparity, as well as to further extend such studies to include other basement-membrane antigens more recently identified, we produced split-thickness wounds in a primate species and serially examined the wounds by immunofluorescence technique for the expression of seven antigens normally found in intact primate skin basement membrane.
(13) In the present study we have readdressed the issue using nulliparous old rats (24-26 months) compared to virgin young rats (4-5 months); two sets of old rats were studied which displayed distinct senile reproductive states, namely persistent diestrus or repetitive pseudopregnancy, and they were compared to young rats in diestrus or in repetitive pseudopregnancy, respectively.
(14) Today’s U-turn was a surprise precisely because the review was apparently set to one side because of the leadership contest and there was every expectation that it would be readdressed post-conference.
(15) Even the green agenda needs readdressing because, O'Brien says, the departed energy secretary Chris Huhne had been running a dirigiste, expensive agenda.
(16) We see the need to readdress this to allow for much longer-term planning with certainty over local transport systems.
(17) I do not share Corbyn’s political views, but a readdressing of the party away from Tory-lite towards a more radical liberal philosophy was long overdue.
(18) The implication of this common structural feature readdresses attention to the work of Masson, who originally theorized a neurectodermal origin for the Wilms' tumor.
(19) The present research readdresses this question using a large well-documented longitudinal sample from Colorado.
(20) This surgical technique has allowed us to readdress the question, "what is the effectiveness of postoperative radiation therapy when tumoricidal doses can be safely administered to patients with Stage C3 rectal cancer?"