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hair-tidy

hair-tidy noun: a dish used by women in the past to store the hair that fell while combing, and use it later for a bun, etc.

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)

Forms of hair-tidy

pluralhair-tidies

Questions about hair-tidy

What does hair-tidy mean?
Hair-tidy means a dish used by women in the past to store the hair that fell while combing, and use it later for a bun, etc.
What part of speech is hair-tidy?
Hair-tidy is a noun.
What is the plural of hair-tidy?
The plural of hair-tidy is hair-tidies.

Words near hair-tidy in the dictionary

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

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