hair-string

American  

[hair-string] / ˈhɛərˌstrɪŋ /

noun

hair-strings plural

1. a string or cord made from human hair, traditionally used in textiles in some Australian Aboriginal cultures.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• hair-strings
  plural

Example Sentences

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hair-string hair-strings

Some days after, the husband, seeing his wife wearing the magic hair-string, asked her, "Where did you get that pretty sakalobe?"

From Algonquin Legends of New England by Leland, Charles Godfrey

The two arms of the handle are sometimes held together by a band of hair-string.

From Spinifex and Sand by Carnegie, David Wynford

But this time he caught, if not the hair, at least the hair-string, of the fairest, which remained in his hand.

From Algonquin Legends of New England by Leland, Charles Godfrey

It was made of grass-stalks bound together with human hair-string and decorated with white down.

From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia by Frazer, James George, Sir

It seems likely that one man or tribe should have a special aptitude for manufacturing message-sticks, whilst others perhaps make a speciality of hair-string or spears.

From Spinifex and Sand by Carnegie, David Wynford

She was wrinkled and bent with extreme age, and her head was braided up with a very great number of sakalobeek, or hair-strings, which hung down to her heels.

From Algonquin Legends of New England by Leland, Charles Godfrey