headpiece

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   something worn on or covering the head, especially an ornamental or protective item

   The actor's elaborate headpiece was decorated with feathers and beads.

2. 2
   noun

   the part of a bridle that passes over or around a horse's head

   She adjusted the leather headpiece so that the bridle sat comfortably behind the horse's ears.

3. 3
   noun

   a person's head, brain, or mental ability (informal or dated)

   The foreman had a good headpiece and remembered every delivery without consulting the ledger.

Formed from head + piece. The compound first denotes an item or component belonging on the head; by metonymy, it also came to mean the head itself and, especially in dated informal use, a person's intelligence or memory.

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