headpiece vs topper

headpiece

noun
  • The top piece or part of various things. 

  • A headstall. 

  • A decorative page heading used at the start of volumes or chapters. 

  • A headset. 

  • Something covering the head. 

  • Protecting cover for the head; a helmet. 

  • The head; the brain. 

topper

noun
  • Something that is on top. 

  • A top hat. 

  • A short outer jacket worn by women or children. 

  • The head or chief of an organization. 

  • One who tops steel ingots. 

  • A person or tool that cuts off the top of something. 

  • A pencil sharpener. 

  • A single-handed dinghy, 11 foot (3.6 metres) in length, with only one sail. 

  • A small secondary comic strip seen along with a larger Sunday strip, and usually by the same author. 

  • A three-square float, or file, used by comb-makers. 

  • The student who achieves the highest score in an examination. 

  • Something that exceeds those previous in a series, as a joke or prank. 

  • A soft, relatively thin, piece of padding placed on top of a mattress, or forming the upper layer of a mattress. 

How often have the words headpiece and topper occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )