hair net
Americannoun
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hair nets
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of hair net
First recorded in 1860–65
Example Sentences
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Take for example the cook, Thet said, standing by the kitchen door and gesturing at a middle-aged woman in an apron and a hair net, sweating over a wok.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 4, 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
A lefty with a trick bag of breaking stuff, opposing hitters would’ve had better luck catching a hummingbird with a hair net.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2016
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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