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chevelures

chevelures is the plural of chevelure.

Meaning of chevelure

Noun

chevelure (plural chevelures)

  1. The nebulous part of a comet or star.
    • A bright star with a considerable milky chevelure1802, William Herschel, Catalogue of 500 new Nebulae, nebulous Stars, planetary Nebulae, and Clusters of Stars; with Remarks on the Construction of the Heavens
  2. A head of hair.
    • An anarchy of small curls was her chevelure, a dark upland of misrule, every hair asserting its rights over a not discreditable brow.1911, Max Beerbohm, chapter II, in Zuleika Dobson
  3. A periwig.

Questions about chevelures

What is chevelures the plural of?
Chevelures is the plural of chevelure.

Words near chevelures in the dictionary

  1. chevaux de frise
  2. chevda
  3. cheve
  4. Cheveley
  5. chevelure
  6. chevelures
  7. cheven
  8. chevened
  9. chevener
  10. cheveners
  11. chevening

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