headpiece
noun
- an ornament placed above the text matter of a page or at the beginning of a chapter
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈhɛdˌpis/
noun
Etymology: From head + piece.
- The head; the brain; the head as the seat of intellect.
- The head; the brain; the head as the seat of intellect.
“He was going about pondering deeply, but in vain, how he might get out of his dilemma, when it came into his head to ask the advice of the boy that kept his pigs, who was a great head-piece, and had often helped him before.”
- Something covering the head.
- Something covering the head.
- A headset.
“Meronyms: mouthpiece, earpiece”
- A headstall.
- A headboard of a bed.
“Wooden beds were made as replicas of large ones, some carved in walnut, others in magohany and with elaborate head-pieces. There were four-posters draped with curtains to pull and bedspreads to match, much beautiful hand-sewing and embroidery going to their manufacture.”
- A decorative page heading used at the start of volumes or chapters.
“A view of a Wenford train headed by this locomotive forms the headpiece to the present article.”
- The top piece or part of any of various things.
“Near-synonym: head”