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headpiece

[hed-pees]

head·piece

[hed-pees]
noun
1.
a piece of armor for the head; helmet.
2.
any covering for the head.
3.
a headset.
4.
the head as the seat of the intellect; judgment.
5.
the top piece or part of any of various things.
EXPAND
6.
Printing. a decorative piece at the head of a page, chapter, etc.
COLLAPSE

Origin:
1520–30; head + piece
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Headpiece is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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headpiece (ˈhɛdˌpiːs)
 
n
1.  printing a decorative band at the top of a page, chapter, etc
2.  any covering for the head, esp a helmet
3.  archaic the intellect
4.  a less common word for crownpiece

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