hairwashing

Definitions

The washing of hair.

uncountable, usually

Examples

“The wedding ceremony consists of hairwashings in yucca-root water and eating marriage mush from a wedding basket.”

“Hagar did not come⟳ back to me for my massages, manicures, and hairwashings.”

“We read⟳ to these children in tender tones, loving the snuggled warmth of their bodies, delighting in their baths and hairwashings and in their little clothes; enjoying the feel⟳ of their hands in ours on our long, naming-the-world walks.”

“Sometimes, she thought, Craig Gleniston did display those endearingly out-of-touch characteristics one expected of an academic—he’d evidently never heard of the short haircuts and blowdriers that made it unnecessary to give⟳ over an entire evening to hairwashing.”

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