Helmets and such

Usage examples of headgear.

Beneath this rather bacchanalian headgear her old, mild straw-coloured face had all the effect of an anachronism.

At least the environmental headgear had special biofilters that allowed them to breathe ambient air and talk to one another.

As the train gasped slowly up the grade and rolled bumpily at last along the fertile, neglected Syrian highland, all the Armenians on the train removed their hats and substituted the red tarboosh, preferring the headgear of a convert rather than be the target of every Bedouin with a rifle in his hand.

Everyone had discarded their headgear, but most were still wearing their enviro suits for protection from the cold.

Stephen, giving the cry, and a tag and bobtail of all them after, cockerel, jackanapes, welsher, pilldoctor, punctual Bloom at heels with a universal grabbing at headgear, ashplants, bilbos, Panama hats and scabbards, Zermatt alpenstocks and what not.

I took the hats right off a bunch of brass, then I got to laughing so hard at all them heavies chasing their headgear that I forgot to lower my landing gear when I came in.

Thus I saw what I took to be Nepalese boys in the garb of urban American blacks talking to each other in Spanish, four Japanese girls wearing Andean headgear yabbering to each other in Magreb Arabic, Saree-covered Tolchucks conversing in Cantonese, Malay-speaking Rastafarians, Portuguese-giggling Sikhs, English-speaking Hindu Swedes, Urdu-chattering Nigerian Orthodox Rabbis.

Behind them were the Red Lancers in their square czapka headgear and the Horse Grenadiers in their tall black bearskins.

They were colourfully dressed, and most were wearing hats or headscarves against the bright afternoon sun, but Telli could see reddish hair on several, showing under their headgear.

On this day the restored exiles-men like Appius Claudius Pulcher, Metellus Pius, Varro Lucullus and Marcus Crassus-marched not as senators of Rome, but as restored exiles, though Sulla considerately spared them the indignity of having to don the Cap of Liberty, normally the headgear of freedmen.

Not that I paid all that much Attention, of course, tho' a good number of Citizens, themselves by way of Brims and Cockades displaying Headgear Messages a-plenty, were loitering about, trying to decipher this Stranger's Hat.

They wore the SEALs' usual mix of headgear floppy boonie hats, woolen balaclavas, or a dark green scarf folded into a triangle and worn over the head like a bandana.

They were dwindled by distance, these trainees, but their white uniforms and tight-fitting headgear reminded Joshua of hospital workers in rubber bathing caps.

But really it's Mike's influence on me, Bozo's boxing gloves are red and now so is the headgear, what Mike calls colour co-ordination.

He had a pointed hat like a dunce's cap, or like the headgear worn by ladies of that time, except that the ladies were accustomed to have bit of veil floating from the top of it.