headrail

She wore a black lace headrail over her beautiful hair.

And a ten year guarantee on the headrail.

Right and a white headrail as well.

"A few days ago, we found milady's headrail in the underground passage beneath the church.

Over the brass-knobbed headrail hung a framed picture of Christ on the cross.

The louvres will come ready to install on our superb mono-control headrail systems,(which can also be colour-keyed if required).

The headrail had been made for another gown, but she wore it now with the dress Gabriel had had made for her in Hispaniola.

I was grateful that the grid had a headrail, for otherwise I would have been poked and gouged painfully by the exposed tops of the vertical bars.

The four spindles between the headrail and the seat were thinner than the stretcher bars between the legs, so they ought to break more easily than those bars had broken.

Anyway, it was after he had stretched a lazy hand up towards the headrail, and yawned, and then relaxed again among his warm covers, all the more grateful on a December morning, that the thing had happened.

After the introduction of Christianity, all women (except for very young girls and occasionally slaves) would wear some kind of headcovering, usually a draped couvrechef called a headrail, the ancestor of the later wimple.

The bosun and his mates eased the first target over the headrail, paused until it was rather better than a quarter of a mile aft and to leeward, then launched another, and so until there was a string of five going away to the south-west.

The spindles were fixed between the seat and the wide slab of radius-cut pine that served as the headrail, and the headrail was so solid that it would do major damage if it cracked into her cervical vertebrae with sufficient force.