"hair-tidy" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: hair-tidies [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} hair-tidy (plural hair-tidies)
  1. (historical) A dish used by women in the past to store the hair that fell while combing, and use it later for a bun, etc. Tags: historical Categories (topical): Hair

Inflected forms

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