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head·band    Audio Help   [hed-band] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.a band worn around the head; fillet.
2.Printing. a band for decorative effect at the head of a chapter or of a page in a book.
3.a band sewed or glued to the head or tail of the back of a book, or to both, often to protect and strengthen the binding but sometimes for decoration.
Compare tailband.


[Origin: 1525–35; head + band2]
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head·band    Audio Help   (hěd'bānd')  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A band worn around the head.
  2. Printing An ornamental strip at the top of a page or beginning of a chapter or paragraph.
  3. Printing A cloth band attached to the top of the spine of a book.

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headband

noun
a band worn around or over the head; "the earphones were held in place by a headband" 

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ˈheadband noun
a strip of material worn round the head to keep one's hair off one's face
Arabic: عِصابَه
Chinese (Simplified): 束发带
Chinese (Traditional): 束發帶
Czech: páska do vlasů
Danish: pandebånd; svedbånd
Dutch: haarband
Estonian: higipael
Finnish: panta
French: bandeau
German: das Stirnband
Greek: κεφαλόδεσμος, κορδέλα
Hungarian: hajlekötő szalag, pánt
Icelandic: ennis-, *hár-, *svitaband
Indonesian: bando
Italian: fascia
Japanese: はち巻き
Korean: 헤어밴드
Latvian: saite ap galvu
Lithuanian: galvos raištis
Norwegian: pannebånd
Polish: opaska na głowę
Portuguese (Brazil): faixa
Portuguese (Portugal): faixa
Romanian: ben­tiţă
Russian: головная повязка
Slovak: páska do vlasov
Slovenian: trak okoli glave
Spanish: cinta
Swedish: hårband
Turkish: saç bandı, alın şeridi
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Headband

Head"band`\, n. 1. A fillet; a band for the head. "The headbands and the tablets." --Is. iii. 20.

2. The band at each end of the back of a book.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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