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Definition of Jewelled headdress

1. Noun. A headdress adorned with jewels.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jewelled Headdress

Literary usage of Jewelled headdress

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Kim by Rudyard Kipling (1905)
"Two butterfly-winged dewas held a wreath over his head; above them another pair supported an umbrella surmounted by th» jewelled headdress of the ..."

2. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1902)
"Two butterfly-winged dewas held a wreath over His head; above them another pair supported an umbrella surmounted by the jewelled headdress of the ..."

3. The Venetian Republic: Its Rise, Its Growth, and Its Fall 421-1797 by William Carew Hazlitt (1900)
"The tradition, which ascribes to the munificence of the contemporary Abbess of San Zaccaria the presentation of a jewelled headdress to the ..."

4. The Rock Temples of Elurâ Or Verul by James Burgess (1877)
"The other (on the south side) as is almost always the case, has a very richly jewelled headdress, ..."

5. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Rembrandt Van Rhyn by Charles Henry Middleton-Wake (1878)
"In the centre of the piece another priest is standing, wearing a cope and jewelled headdress ; he holds in his right hand a richly ornamented crozier; ..."

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