From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishheadbandhead‧band /ˈhedbænd/ noun [countable] DCCa band that you wear around your head to keep your hair off your face or as a decoration
Examples from the Corpus
headband• When the lady is laid out, it is in a mob-cap and an embroidered headband, and neatly pressed flounces.• These lovely curls and the pretty floral headband caught our eye.• Nguyen wiped at it with the filthy rag that had been his headband.• The herbalist adjusted his wide, white medical headband.• It was even more pathetic than a guy wearing a purple headband.• He was a Puerto Rican, no older than twenty, with long, greasy black hair and a red headband.• There were three men - Han, dressed in dark silks with blood-red headbands about their foreheads.• The velvet headband has gone, along with the over-tailored suits. 