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hair-tidies

hair-tidies is the plural of hair-tidy.

Meaning of hair-tidy

Noun

hair-tidy (plural hair-tidies)

  1. (historical) A dish used by women in the past to store the hair that fell while combing, and use it later for a bun, etc.
    • 1918 : The fireplace was choked up with rubbish. She poked among it but found nothing except a hair-tidy with a heart painted on it that belonged to the servant girl. - Katherine Mansfield, Prelude (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 81)

Questions about hair-tidies

What is hair-tidies the plural of?
Hair-tidies is the plural of hair-tidy.

Words near hair-tidies in the dictionary

  1. hair-splitters
  2. hair-splittery
  3. hair-splitting
  4. hair-splittingly
  5. hair-splittings
  6. hair-tidies
  7. hair-tidy
  8. hair-trigger
  9. hair-triggers
  10. hairball
  11. hairballs

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