fringe net

plural fringe nets

1. archaichistoricalA type of hairnet used to confine a fringe.First known use 19th c.

   ‘This dress is a nightmare in this room,’ she thought, puffing up her hair under her fringe-net with a hat-pin.

   1917, Dorothy Richardson, Honeycomb

   1 more example

   Heather's hair was too soft and fine to curl naturally, and she wore it in a very becoming fringe on her forehead; which would have been trying in wet weather but for the tiny invisible fringe net.

   1896, Josephine Haze, A Woman and a Little Dark Man, page 38