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hair-bowed

hair-bowed adjective: wearing a hair bow.

Adjective

hair-bowed (not comparable)

  1. Wearing a hair bow.
    • Dressed in short skirts, pig-tailed and hair-bowed, the seniors vied for prizes in costumes, played games and were taken to the movies (half-price) by their junior sisters.1942 May 10, Louise Burger, “Campus Capers Vary From ‘Look Alike’ Games To Half-Price ‘Kid Day’ Movies: This K. P. All Fun: Tallahassee Seniors Forget Their Dignity For Kid Day Frolic”, in The Miami...
    • He loves them all — the short, crying kindergartners who come in clinging to their mothers on the first day; the freshly scrubbed, hair-bowed little girls; the rough-and-tumble boys.2004 September 17, Kathryn Watson Quigg, “Building gains new life”, in The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C., page 5N

Forms of hair-bowed

alternative formhairbowed

Origin of hair-bowed

From hair bow + -ed.

Questions about hair-bowed

What does hair-bowed mean?
Hair-bowed means wearing a hair bow.
What part of speech is hair-bowed?
Hair-bowed is an adjective.

Words near hair-bowed in the dictionary

  1. hair waxes
  2. hair's breadth
  3. HAIR-AN
  4. HAIR-AN syndrome
  5. HAIR-AN syndromes
  6. hair-bowed
  7. hair-brown
  8. hair-brush
  9. hair-brushes
  10. hair-clip
  11. hair-clips

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