From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishldoce_150_aheaddresshead‧dress /ˈhed-dres/ noun [countable] DCCsomething that someone wears on their head, especially for decoration on a special occasion The bride wore white with a pearl headdress.
Examples from the Corpus
headdress• Loops of wire pressed octagons into her face, just below the hairline, imprinting a headdress of chains.• Pipe a headdress around the top of the head.• She had dark-brown hair, parted in the middle, and wore a headdress of yellow felt.• Clothing included linen shirts, decorated caftans, aprons, stockings, and headdresses of felt and leather.• Too fat for the Breton headdress.• She was the Amazon, with a crimson headdress, eyeing the miniature man she held between thumb and forefinger.• a feathered headdress• He wore a red-and-gold headdress, and a white tunic trimmed with the same colours. 