hair net
Americannoun
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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
“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
The Gryffindor party ended only when Professor McGonagall turned up in her tartan dressing gown and hair net at one in the morning, to insist that they all go to bed.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
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