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hair belts

hair belts is the plural of hair belt.

Meaning of hair belt

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

Questions about hair belts

What is hair belts the plural of?
Hair belts is the plural of hair belt.

Words near hair belts in the dictionary

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

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