blowdrier

plural blowdriers

1. alternativeAlternative form of blow-dryer.

   Some pieces of hairdressing equipment are more vulnerable – blowdriers for example can break if dropped.

   1996, Peter Cutting, Renie Ross, Hairdressing: The Complete Guide, 4th edition, London: Longman, →ISBN, page 38

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   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.

   1985, Nicola West, Comeback, Toronto, Ont.: Harlequin Books, published 1986, →ISBN, page 41

   Even his hair was styled to ruffle becomingly in a breeze. At every hairdresser’s appointment he tested it by bullying four of his stylist’s assistants into simulating wind with blowdriers turned up full blast.

   1995, Caro French [pseudonym; Karen Watkins], Lady Luck, London: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 280