headrag

plural headrags

1. alternativeAlternative form of head rag.

   He makes Janie hide her hair under headrags while she works in the store, so afraid is he that some other man might touch it or admire it.

   1995, Gary Carey, editor, Their Eyes Were Watching God: Notes, Lincoln, Neb.: Cliffs Notes, Inc., →ISBN, page 24

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   1981, Toni Morrison, interview with Charles Ruas in Danille Taylor-Guthrie (ed.), Conversations with Toni Morrison, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1994, p. 114, […] black women slaves in this country were not, by and large, domestics in the house, with the headrag. They worked out in the fields […]

   He’s there and there she is, curled up fetally inside the shabby old orange sleeping bag on the mattress, the brocade headrag loosely scarving her bare head against the cold.

   1993, Tabitha King, One on One, Signet Books, →ISBN, page 330