hair-string

American  

[hair-string] / ˈhɛərˌstrɪŋ /

noun

• hair-strings
  plural

1. a string or cord made from human hair, traditionally used in textiles in some Australian Aboriginal cultures.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• hair-strings
  plural

Example Sentences

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hair-string hair-strings

They were always carefully wrapped up in bark secured by hair-string.

From Spinifex and Sand by David Wynford Carnegie

Some days after, the husband, seeing his wife wearing the magic hair-string, asked her, "Where did you get that pretty sakalobe?"

From Algonquin Legends of New England by Charles Godfrey Leland

The two arms of the handle are sometimes held together by a band of hair-string.

From Spinifex and Sand by David Wynford Carnegie

So, taking him into the woods, they found the old woman, who, kind as ever, did for the chief's son what she had already done for his friend, and gave him also a magic hair-string.

From Algonquin Legends of New England by Charles Godfrey Leland

But this time he caught, if not the hair, at least the hair-string, of the fairest, which remained in his hand.

From Algonquin Legends of New England by Charles Godfrey Leland

She was wrinkled and bent with extreme age, and her head was braided up with a very great number of sakalobeek, or hair-strings, which hung down to her heels.

From Algonquin Legends of New England by Charles Godfrey Leland