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Definition of Headrests
1. headrest [n] - See also: headrest
Lexicographical Neighbors of Headrests
Literary usage of Headrests
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Arts of the World: Comparative Art Studies by Edwin Swift Balch (1920)
"There are also odd resemblances with far away corners of the world as in some
headrests from Egypt which look just like Japanese or Zulu headrests. ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... pillows" or headrests, and stools. They also make wooden gongs, or drums,
which they beat as they travel in their boats, in their dances, etc. ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1893)
"... spears barbed along both edges, narrow shields elaborately decorated with
earring and color, quaint carved figures, and wooden headrests or pillows. ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... now in the Cairo Museum), headrests, 6 or 8 in. high, shaped like a crutch on
afoot, very like those used by the native of New Guinea to-day, ..."
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