hair net
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of hair net
First recorded in 1860–65
Example Sentences
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The photos also saw the star donning a white lab coat but neither gloves nor a hair net.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 5, 2022
“But I, who could see her soul, could also see her secret: that even while she wore a hair net and work clothes to scrub toilets and floors, she wore an invisible diadem.”
From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2022
At HollisterStier's manufacturing facility in Spokane, Washington, Pete Colomb, the associate director of manufacturing, strode through a maze of corridors in a white lab coat and blue hair net.
From Salon • Nov. 22, 2020
Clean room protocols are in place that are common in health care, food service and biotechnology, such as slipping on a white laboratory-approved bunny suit, hair net and shoe bootees.
From Washington Times • Feb. 1, 2020
As proprietor, Mrs. Cripe wore a crocheted handkerchief pinned to her apron, and a hair net.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
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