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hair belt

hair belt noun: a cord or band made of twisted human hair, traditionally worn by Australian Aboriginals around the waist or arm used for carrying small tools or ritual items and for marking ceremonial or social identity.

Noun

hair belt (plural hair belts)

  1. A cord or band made of twisted human hair, traditionally worn by Australian Aboriginals around the waist or arm used for carrying small tools or ritual items and for marking ceremonial or social identity.
    • He carried a wommera and two excellently made shovel-bladed spears; a stone knife was shoved through his human hair belt.1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 77

Forms of hair belt

pluralhair belts

Questions about hair belt

What does hair belt mean?
Hair belt means a cord or band made of twisted human hair, traditionally worn by Australian Aboriginals around the waist or arm used for carrying small tools or ritual items and for marking ceremonial or social identity.
What part of speech is hair belt?
Hair belt is a noun.
What is the plural of hair belt?
The plural of hair belt is hair belts.

Words near hair belt in the dictionary

  1. haique
  2. haiques
  3. hair
  4. hair band
  5. hair bands
  6. hair belt
  7. hair belts
  8. hair bobble
  9. hair bobbles
  10. hair bracket
  11. hair brackets

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