hair-tidy

noun

A dish used by women in the past to store the hair that fell while combing, and use it later for a bun, etc.

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Meanings

nounhair-tidy (plural hair-tidies)

plural hair-tidies

  1. historicalA dish used by women in the past to store the hair that fell while combing, and use it later for a bun, etc.

    1918 : The fireplace was choked up with rubbish. She poked among it but found nothing except a hair-tidy with a heart painted on it that belonged to the servant girl. - Katherine Mansfield, Prelude (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 81)

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APA

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“hair-tidy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hair-tidy. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hair-tidy,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hair-tidy.

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