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Surely, upon a pinch like this, you can take up a hair-bag, and a lump of soap, and scrub and rub the bodies of the true believers.
The Pacha of Many Tales Frederick Marryat 1820
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Surely upon a pinch like this, you can take up a hair-bag, and a lump of soap, and scrub and rub the bodies of the true believers.
The Pacha of Many Tales Frederick Marryat 1820
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I had really very fine hair; but my Strasburg hair-dresser at once assured me that it was cut much too short behind, and that it would be impossible to make a/frizure/of it in which I could show myself, since nothing but a few short curls in front were decreed lawful; and all the rest, from the crown, must be tied up in a cue or a hair-bag.
Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1790
alexz commented on the word hair-bag
In reading a 1712 cookbook, I got the impression that this was a bag that you would put a resin coated pig in to get the hair off the pig so you can get a ham.
January 14, 2016