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hair-tidy

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

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

historical

Examples

“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)”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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