A protective helmet for the head

Usage examples of headpiece.

Hordle John, who lay with his great limbs all asprawl, and his headpiece balanced upon his uplifted foot.

The men were armed for the most part with sword and pistol, while a few had the buff-coats, plates, and headpieces taken at Axminster, still stained sometimes with the blood of the last wearer.

Going over to the bed and the box that she had laid on the bedspread, she lifted the lid and pulled out the slip, corselette and headpiece she knew she would find there.

And on top of that, they fix a high headpiece called a gugu, a thing made of bark, decorated with bits of colored felt and ribbons.

Tuit reseated his headpiece, gestured at his navigator, and then clomped off the bridge.

The subofficer on site provided coordinates, which Dysseen promptly entered into his headpiece.

For once, he was glad that he was not one of the high priests, since their costumes included conical headpieces as well.

Lwaxana adjusted her elaborate headpiece, a large affair with exotically upswept sidepieces of gleaming black metal.

She had to force herself to think of the proximity of sharp hexalate blades which could rip gelsuit or airflow headpiece.

Beside him lay a feathered headpiece and a sword attached to a richly broidered baldrick.

Experiencing a sudden, un-characteristic attack of claustrophobia, he hurried to remove the survival suit's headpiece.

I still had the U-shaped plastic headpiece that Foster had used to acquire a background knowledge of his old home.

He was referring to his camail, a headpiece of chain armour that hung down from his fool's bonnet to his shoulders, over his ears.

In the days of Grail and Roembden, explosive charges had been used to drive the headpiece onto the container with the man, in order that the freezing process take place as rapidly as possible.

Attired in a Geneva gown of canary-yellow silk and a sequined headpiece similar to that seen on the statues of Krishna, he looked like the rising sun.