headgear

English

Various headgear items.

head +‎ gear

headgear (countable and uncountable, plural headgears)

(uncountable) Anything worn on the head, such as a hat, hood, helmet, etc.
- 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H.L. Brækstad, transl., Folk and Fairy Tales, page 296:
  Grey hairs straggled out from under her head-gear, which surrounded a dark face with bushy eyebrows and a long knotted nose.
The harness that fits on a horse's head.
The lifting gear at the head of a mine or deep well.
(nautical) The rigging on the foresail.
(orthodontics) A type of orthodontic appliance attached to dental braces that aids in correcting severe bite problems.

anything worn on the head

Azerbaijani: baş geyimi
Chinese:
Mandarin: 帽子 (zh) (màozi), 頭巾／头巾 (zh) (tóujīn)
Czech: (single item) pokrývka hlavy f
Finnish: päähine (fi)
French: couvre-chef (fr) m
German: Kopfbedeckung (de) f
Hebrew: כִּסּוּי רֹאשׁ‎ (he) m (kisúy rosh)
Hungarian: fejfedő (hu)
Icelandic: höfuðbúnaður m
Irish: ceannbheart m or f
Italian: copricapo (it), cappuccio (it) m, cappello (it) m, bandana (it) f
Japanese: 帽子 (ja) (ぼうし, bōshi), ヘッドギア (heddogia), 頭巾 (ja) (ずきん, zukin)
Kazakh: бас киім (bas kiım), баскиім (baskiım)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: پۆتەڵاک‎ (potellak)
Maori: paraehe
Portuguese: acessório para a cabeça m
Russian: головно́й убо́р (ru) m (golovnój ubór)
Spanish: prenda para la cabeza f, accesorio para la cabeza m, sombrero (es) m (hat)
Swedish: huvudbonad (sv) c

harness that fits on a horse's head

lifting gear at the head of a mine

rigging on the foresail