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  • It's probably a medicine man or witch doctor wearing some peculiar hairdress.

    Tin 2010

  • Sarah Palin's hairdress is very confusing: it's a hybrid between Cleopatra and an italian neo-realist mamma of the sixties.

    Sarah Palin, the neo-feminist, who says "quit whining." Ann Althouse 2008

  • The revision is due to the better measurement, which includes a lot of small private-owned shops, such as corner shop, hairdress shop and beauty salons etc.

    Implications of China's GDP revision Sun Bin 2005

  • From the city walls a number of warriors were watching us, and, I presume, with a great deal of suspicion, since Mantar and I still wore the Zani hairdress and apparel.

    Carson of Venus Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 1939

  • Her mother told me she was ready to choose her husband now, and that the hairdress would notify the young braves to that effect.

    I Married a Ranger Dama Margaret Smith 1932

  • She sent it up right away, and Katy, blessed be her loving footprints, loaned me money to buy a blouse and some shoes to match, so I went to school today looking very like the Great General Average, minus rouge, lipstick, hairdress, and French heels.

    Her father`s daughter 1921

  • The chief adornment of the woman is her hairdress.

    The Bontoc Igorot Albert Ernest Jenks 1911

  • Within this wallet the cherished agate and white stone hairdress is often hidden away.

    The Bontoc Igorot Albert Ernest Jenks 1911

  • All these various hairdress beads are of Igorot manufacture.

    The Bontoc Igorot Albert Ernest Jenks 1911

  • 'Go on, stupid head, and never mind an old woman's hairdress,' she said good-humouredly.

    A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg 1905

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