"hairwashing" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "hair + washing",
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      "form": "hairwashings",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1933, Mrs. White Mountain Smith [i.e., Dama Margaret Smith], Indian Tribes of the Southwest, Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, page 46",
          "text": "The wedding ceremony consists of hairwashings in yucca-root water and eating marriage mush from a wedding basket.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1983, Lillian Cantleberry, Sarah’s Story, St. Louis, Mo.: Concordia Publishing House, page 148",
          "text": "Hagar did not come back to me for my massages, manicures, and hairwashings.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, Augustus Y. Napier, The Fragile Bond: In Search of an Equal, Intimate and Enduring Marriage, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, page 296",
          "text": "We read to these children in tender tones, loving the snuggled warmth of their bodies, delighting in their baths and hairwashings and in their little clothes; enjoying the feel of their hands in ours on our long, naming-the-world walks.",
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        {
          "ref": "1985, Nicola West, Comeback, Toronto, Ont.: Harlequin Books, published 1986, page 41",
          "text": "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.",
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        "The washing of hair."
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  "word": "hairwashing"
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  "etymology_text": "hair + washing",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hairwashings",
      "tags": [
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      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1933, Mrs. White Mountain Smith [i.e., Dama Margaret Smith], Indian Tribes of the Southwest, Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, page 46",
          "text": "The wedding ceremony consists of hairwashings in yucca-root water and eating marriage mush from a wedding basket.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1983, Lillian Cantleberry, Sarah’s Story, St. Louis, Mo.: Concordia Publishing House, page 148",
          "text": "Hagar did not come back to me for my massages, manicures, and hairwashings.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, Augustus Y. Napier, The Fragile Bond: In Search of an Equal, Intimate and Enduring Marriage, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, page 296",
          "text": "We read to these children in tender tones, loving the snuggled warmth of their bodies, delighting in their baths and hairwashings and in their little clothes; enjoying the feel of their hands in ours on our long, naming-the-world walks.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1985, Nicola West, Comeback, Toronto, Ont.: Harlequin Books, published 1986, page 41",
          "text": "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.",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The washing of hair."
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