head-dress Copy link • head-dress: vitta (the usual h. worn by maidens and modest women generally): cf. Ov. Rem. Am. 386, nil mihi cum vitta, Thais in arte mea est: Val. Fl. (Comptus in Lucr. 1, 88; and ornatus [capillorum], Ov. A. A. 3, 135, refer to the hair itself as dressed.)