Definitions
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- noun a
dish used by woman in the past to store the hair that fell while combing, and use it later for a bun, etc.
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Examples
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Some say he was fishing for _bolawallas_ [20] and she came graciously up and asked him the time; others aver that he was passing beneath her lattice and she dropped a fluted hair-tidy at his feet.
Terribly Intimate Portraits Noel Coward 1936
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She poked among it but found nothing except a hair-tidy with a heart painted on it that had belonged to the servant girl.
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a pincushion cover, and Bertha painted her a hair-tidy.
The Princess of the School Angela Brazil 1907
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