Meaning of hairwashing | Babel Free

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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