hair-string

American  

[hair-string] / ˈhɛərˌstrɪŋ /

noun

plural

hair-strings

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

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Example Sentences

You must accept his hair-string, his pins, his rats, at a price at which angola cats were dear.

From Project Gutenberg

It was made of grass-stalks bound together with human hair-string and decorated with white down.

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Now it had taken Master Lox the entire day to untie the hair-string, so when he came down it was dark, and he was glad when he saw the hut and thought of resting therein.

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

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

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