Example Sentences

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Here are no chaperons struggling with palms and hair-nets through a wearisome evening, creaking in wicker chairs and discussing draughts with neighbors.

From Carnival by MacKenzie, Compton

Her head had been marcelled special, and she was so nervous that she tore three hair-nets.

From The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)