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hairwashings

hairwashings is the plural of hairwashing.

Meaning of hairwashing

Noun

hairwashing (usually uncountable, plural hairwashings)

  1. (usually) The washing of hair.
    • The wedding ceremony consists of hairwashings in yucca-root water and eating marriage mush from a wedding basket.1933, Mrs. White Mountain Smith [i.e., Dama Margaret Smith], Indian Tribes of the Southwest, Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, page 46

Questions about hairwashings

What is hairwashings the plural of?
Hairwashings is the plural of hairwashing.

Words near hairwashings in the dictionary

  1. hairtails
  2. HairTok
  3. hairwash
  4. hairwashes
  5. hairwashing
  6. hairwashings
  7. hairwear
  8. hairweaving
  9. hairweed
  10. hairwing
  11. hairwings

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