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hair net

American  

noun

  1. a cap of loose net, as of silk or nylon, for holding the hair in place.


Etymology

Origin of hair net

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

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When I go, I wear a disposable hair net and pretend I’m a grotto nymph, crawling around the corners of my subconscious transporting me back in time.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2025

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

Dressed in sterile white work clothes, and a hair net, Sergine Brice is proud of her job.

From Reuters • Mar. 16, 2014

It was a hair net of fine-spun silver, the strands so thin and delicate the net seemed to weigh no more than a breath of air when Sansa took it in her fingers.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

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