noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a hair appointment (= to have your hair cut )
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I’d like to make a hair appointment for next week.
bad hair day
beauty/hair products
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She doesn’t buy beauty products that have been tested on animals.
bleached...hair
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She bleached her hair blonde.
colour...hair
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If I didn’t colour my hair I’d be totally grey.
comb...hair
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Melanie ran upstairs to comb her hair .
drying...hair
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He was drying his hair with a towel.
false teeth/hair/eyelashes etc
gelled hair
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gelled hair
grizzled hair/head/beard etc
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a grizzled old man
hair extensions
hair shirt
hair slide
hair tousled
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She had just awakened, her eyes sleepy and her hair tousled.
hair trigger
hair was dripping
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Her boots were muddy and her hair was dripping .
hair's breadth
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The bullet missed me by a hair’s breadth.
hair/beauty salon
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an exclusive hair salon
have...hair permed
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I’m going to have my hair permed .
long hair
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long hair
ruffled...hair
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He ruffled her hair affectionately.
shampooed...hair
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She showered and shampooed her short dark hair .
shining...hair
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She had shining black hair .
skin/hair type
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The best cleanser for you depends on your skin type.
strand of hair
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He reached out and brushed a strand of hair away from her face.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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Naturally straight, black hair was set at the crown on small curlers then gelled into two different shapes.
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Marcus was usually silent: a stocky man with flat black hair and a private smile.
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The same almost black hair , the same vivid blue eyes.
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Harry Sargent had a handsome head of black hair , pale skin, and bright eyes, and affected a Byronic appearance.
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He's got all this thick black hair like a baboon.
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But he had a thinnish face, with an aquiline nose and really black hair .
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He turned out to be a slight boy with dark, wary eyes and black hair cut short.
blond
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She was smiling out at him, her long blond hair tousled.
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On one of them was Blue Mooney, his pale blond hair blown against his cheek as he skidded around the corner.
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Blood matted the blond hair , and Lindsey took a deep breath as she leaned closer to peer at the wound.
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Debbie wore a much simpler dress this time: a cream-colored cotton number that showed off her blond hair and tan.
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He's white, in his late twenties, about six feet tall with gingery blond wavy hair .
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Dark roots on blond hair are also in; so is the double-process blond.
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He'd admire his long, blond hair , his bright blue eyes and his perfect white teeth.
blonde
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Jennifer, in a blue tracksuit that showed off her blonde hair to perfection, was sitting in her wheelchair.
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The one with the thinning blonde hair made a remark at which the second man sniggered.
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Her blonde hair was pulled back into a smooth chignon and tied with a yellow silk bow.
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On the screen a woman with bright blonde hair and red-rimmed glasses was teaching her audience how to make profiteroles.
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Her mass of blonde hair was down, flowing free in the winter air.
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And the same blonde mass of hair .
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Petal came back in, with her blonde hair wafting about her shoulders.
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She had the most beautiful blonde hair .
brown
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His Straight brown hair fell half-combed across his forehead, and his clothes were clean but rumpled.
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Mathilde had strong teeth and brown hair which she wore pulled back with a ribbon.
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Crazy Horse was a slim man of medium height with brown hair hanging below his waist and a scar above his lip.
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He was bearded and the dark brown hair of his whiskers and mustache outlined the thickness and pinkness of his lips.
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Her dark brown hair was neatly cut and waved around her face; there was only a slight tinge of grey.
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She had blondish-\#brown hair and was dressed in wool and fur.
curly
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With his blue black curly hair and ice blue eyes, he could melt most women with a glance.
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Her curly hair was back from her face more than yesterday, and she had yellow earrings.
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His arms are covered with a sheath of curly black hair .
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Fingered through permed or curly hair , they give more definition to curls and tendrils.
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I think Janir resembles her more, with his dark skin, curly hair and strong features.
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He stretched, panther-like, raked a lazy hand through his curly dark hair .
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Red is the six-foot sophomore with short, curly hair the color of terra-cotta.
dark
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He had a moustache, short dark hair , and he wore glasses.
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His dark hair and even darker beard do nothing to assuage her discomfort.
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Thick, dark hair curled around his face and his rolled-up sleeves revealed strong, well-muscled arms.
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He was clean-shaven, wore glasses and had dark hair with a bald spot.
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Her dark blonde hair and serpentine figure drew the approval of Sir Charles Webb-Bowen himself.
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Sister Mary was a tall, sturdy-looking woman whose dark hair was simply cut.
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Her long dark hair brushed like burnished jet.
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What did she look like? Dark hair .
dry
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Simply spray Hot Shapes on to clean, dry hair before setting to get instant hold with a glossy finish.
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Under her starched cap the dyed dry hair was puffed out.
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But it can't do anything about dry or damaged hair .
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It's what makes your hair bouncy and pliable. Dry hair is hair which lacks moisture rather than hair which lacks oil.
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So we've combined them in a shampoo that makes dry hair lustrous and more manageable.
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Make sure you use a moisturising shampoo and conditioner for dry hair .
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You can also put them in dry hair , but we suggest that you lightly spritz all over with water first.
fair
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He props himself up on one elbow. Fair hair glistens on his forearm.. ` You're not a painter?
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He had a sandy mustache and fair short hair that clustered on his forehead.
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He stroked her fair hair before taking it.
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As mine was a redemptive story about fair hair , hers was one about straight hair.
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In his crinkly fair hair there was hardly any grey.
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He's got long fair hair and a little white face too.
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She had no makeup on and her long fair hair was twisted into a knot on top of her head.
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He had very fine, fair hair and pale skin, faintly pitted by smallpox.
fine
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Like rabbits, they are born blind but they do have some very fine body hair .
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Undaunted, he began nibbling her earlobe, as fine strands of hair brushed his face.
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Their bristles were made from the finest hair available, taken from inside the ear of a goat.
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It shows itself only to the most powerful of microscopes as a speck, one-fiftieth of a strand of fine hair .
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Fine dark hair on her lip, fine black hair on her forearms.
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One had fine gold silken hair , faded and grey with the dust.
ginger
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With his unkempt ginger hair running down into sideboards it made his hard face look even meaner.
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Profuse amounts of grey and ginger hair sprouted from nose and ears.
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One was white, of medium height with fair or ginger hair cut short on one side and longer on the other.
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Bessie was a fiery character, a large plump woman with a shock of ginger hair , freckles and green eyes.
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A pair of waving ginger hairs appeared in the corner of a mouth the colour of old putty.
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The Gyggle forearms were covered all over with a regular pattern of tight ginger curlicues of hair .
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The other in his 30's, with ginger hair and moustache and a tweed sports coat.
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He has short ginger hair , and is clean shaven with freckles.
golden
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She was slender and very fair with long golden hair and as unlike as possible any Naulls that had ever been.
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His golden hair was parted down the middle, and he wore a gold ring on his right hand.
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One of the children was a little girl, with golden hair and blue eyes.
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The giant with golden hair: Fearsome but knowledgeable.
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The smiling, classic features, topped by the golden hair .
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He required the boy to return with three golden hairs from the giant of the kingdom in order to keep his bride.
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Fingers of energy, disguised - a felicitous whim - as strands of your golden hair .
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They love him ... all that golden hair and the jaunty moustache.
grey
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Behind the left ear his grey hair had been twisted into a knot.
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Profuse amounts of grey and ginger hair sprouted from nose and ears.
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The man who shot Richard had grey hair and was wearing a black leather jacket, a blue jumper and jeans.
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He had grey hair and a black moustache which rose and fell as he breathed.
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This masculinity was emphasised by her uncompromising coiffure, her grey hair drawn tightly back and screwed into a straggling bun.
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However, the publisher was beaming, his grey hair smooth in the sunlight from the dusty window.
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He was wearing rough clothes, and he was about sixty, with a brown face and long grey hair .
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His grey hair was shiny with rain.
long
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Most are vulnerable to the cold, since they can not grow long hair and a thick insulating coat.
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Pierced ears, noses or eyelids, purple hair , long hair, no hair or a mohawk.
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His long hair stopped neatly at the level where it curved most attractively, but his shave was indifferent.
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Two young boys call inside one of the tents and a dark man with long , graying hair emerges.
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Her long hair fluttered behind her as she moved about.
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I slipped my long hair inside the wig, adjusted it, then put on a pair of large sunglasses.
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She had no makeup on and her long fair hair was twisted into a knot on top of her head.
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The girl was very pretty with cream colored skin and long black wary hair falling down her back.
red
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Her short red hair was crudely shaped in a wedge and her pallid cheeks and small chin were peppered with unsightly acne.
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At the University of Houston, they remember her capacity for hard work and her flaming red hair .
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It was their next door neighbour, the woman with the red hair .
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One of them, a boy with red hair , had a bad case of adolescent skin eruptions.
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It was a bikini, flower-printed and attractive against her dark red hair .
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Her face was a pile of white cloud afire with red hair .
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I have red hair and green eyes.
short
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A medallion in Hughes Hall portrays her with short hair , an aquiline nose, and a determined chin.
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To this day, I believe the only thing that saved him from a beating was his short hair .
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You've got short hair , you've got a moustache now, and you wear glasses.
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The shorter the hair , the thicker it looks.
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The older boy, leaner and more muscular, has shorter hair and a small skull-cap which may conceal a tonsure.
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He is tall, a marathoner, with salt-and-pepper short hair .
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The other one was young, chubby, red-faced, with short red hair and looked embarrassed.
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She has short reddish hair and green eyes.
straight
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By Tina at Marc Young Maximum root lift and volume achieved on long, straight hair .
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And perms, our straight hair tortured into frizz for the Christmas or Easter gathering and the requisite smiling photograph.
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I even resorted to going to a hairdresser who guaranteed that I'd emerge with dead straight hair .
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He was absorbed in eating, and his blond, straight hair fell forward over his forehead.
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She was a plain girl, with straight hair and thin limbs and a mathematical turn of mind.
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As mine was a redemptive story about fair hair , hers was one about straight hair.
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He had a lot of straight , silvery hair .
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Laz pumps my hand in a blustering manner that sends his straight hair bobbing over his ruddy face.
thick
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Feeling weightless and soft, she slid her arms further round him, her fingers pushing into his thick hair .
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Her thick hair fell forward over her face.
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Adam put a hand nervously through his thick black hair , suddenly conscious of the lawyer's stare.
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She had big dark eyes and fine lashes, and she kept her thick hair pulled severely back.
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His thick brown hair fell down the sides of his face.
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Enrique lounged behind the wheel, short and barrel-chested, his thick gray hair falling over his shoulders.
wavy
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She had long wavy brown hair , and a gentle, kind face.
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He wore his carefully combed wavy hair , dark brown with tinges of gray, rather long.
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She ran her hand approvingly through her wavy auburn hair .
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He's white, in his late twenties, about six feet tall with gingery blond wavy hair .
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Others sport a wig of what could pass for close-cropped, wavy human hair .
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Brown, wavy hair - not that really dark brown, but the sort that goes lighter in the sun.
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He looked like he was in his early forties with thin, wavy gray hair and a sorrowful expression.
white
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Standing in front of them was an extremely old man with a beard that trailed on the ground and long flowing white hair .
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He is 61, with white hair and a droopy mustache.
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The summer light through the window frames Bill's white hair .
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I wash your intimate places, pull your white hairs , and cut your nails.
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His thick white hair was cut short and unevenly, so that in parts it stood up in clumps.
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Anna was a fiercely idealistic woman whose prematurely white hair flared like flame from her freckled face.
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In his sixties, he had a mane of white hair and a kindly expression.
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Baby Girl, she might say, pick out my white hairs .
■ NOUN
auburn
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She was fine-boned and delicate, with auburn hair tied back in a leather clasp.
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This final aching agony had auburn hair , grey eyes, multiple sclerosis and a sick dislike of crying babies.
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A man in his mid-thirties with dull auburn hair and a freckled face behind rectangular metal-rimmed glasses.
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Her auburn hair had been lifted from her shoulders and tied with a tortoiseshell slide.
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They had selected a full-skirted velvet frock in a deep royal blue which set off her auburn hair .
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Her auburn hair was dressed in the Roman style, her gown an ankle-length shirt of green satin covered with net.
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She had a head of flowing auburn hair and carried herself in a self-possessed manner touching on the arrogant.
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Her soft brown wool suit and velvet Vandyke cap perfectly complemented her auburn hair .
colour
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You simply press the touch-pad which corresponds to your hair colour and the one which corresponds to your skin tone.
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That's the promise of Contrasts High and Low lighting kits - the easy way to enhance your natural hair colour .
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It can be brushed, combed or scrunched into your hair to enhance natural hair colour .
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My hair colour doesn't affect me and I've never felt that people treat me as having lower than average intelligence.
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The only roots Cilla has lost touch with are those of her natural hair colour .
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The gene affects hair colour , and codes either for orange or for black.
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The same thing is true in a different campaign for hair colour .
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A woman peeks down her bikini bottom to remind herself of her true hair colour .
cut
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Well, of course, she could get her hair cut and buy new clothes.
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The profession usually requires short, neat hair cuts and trim beards if any, for men.
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She's had her hair cut , but it's Annie all right.
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Changing your hair cut and/or colour can be a great looks-booster.
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She had had her hair cut .
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She looked different with her hair cut and it made them feel shy.
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Would you have your hair cut ?
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De Levantiére has had her hair cut and it makes her look very sophisticated.
■ VERB
brush
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She brushed her long hair into a shining mane and arranged it carefully around her shoulders.
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The girl gave her a questioning look, brushing her hair back from her face.
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Never brush your hair when wet; instead use a wide-tooth comb.
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He rearranged a couple of silver paperweights and brushed his long white hair with his hand.
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He brushes a strand of hair from her forehead, giving her permission.
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All I want is her to carry on brushing my hair with her hands.
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She brushed her hair back and looked at him.
comb
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The girls set to work, sewed, talked, laughed, and combed their hair .
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He wore his carefully combed wavy hair , dark brown with tinges of gray, rather long.
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She eats another nut, and needlessly, absently, combs her hair .
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She sat her on the counter beside the sink and combed back her thin hair .
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They ate steak pudding with exceptional appetite and, when everything was cleared away, Melanie ran upstairs to comb her hair .
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He leaned over to comb his hair in the rearview mirror before he got out of the car.
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Never before have we been so potent, not even in New York when we were combing nurses out of our hair .
curl
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When she came down again it was ten o'clock and she had been curling her hair .
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He curled my hair for me.
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Beauty salons crimp and curl shining hair with a fall like silk into shapeless frizz.
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You aren't allowed things such as curling irons and hair dryers.
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She can't still be curling her hair .
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He was tall and thin but his most striking feature was his long, softly curling brown hair .
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I washed and curled her hair and she wore a lovely pink bodice to go home in.
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She looked different since Lily had stopped curling her hair .
let
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She would let me brush her hair some days.
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She was letting her dark brown hair grow long again.
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In the second half Complicite let their hair down in their own inimitable way.
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Might have skipped rope with her, or let her braid my hair , or told her my dreams!
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But Coffin no longer disliked this; he might let his own hair lengthen.
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Out in the pasture, the princess let her hair down.
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He liked this: what his pub was all about, for people to let their hair down.
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He would wear old woolen jackets and patched pants and let his hair grow and protest nuclear power.
lose
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She had lost her hair , probably the after-effects of chemotherapy.
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Surgeons removed her right leg above the knee and she lost her hair through radiotherapy.
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It was as if by deciding to lose my hair , I'd stopped the cancer from taking it against my will.
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There were mild abrasions and some lost hair , Walter said.
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He was losing his hair a little.
pull
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My eyes feel all hot and my head's prickly like some one's pulled my hair .
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Margarett had pulled back her hair rather severely and parted it on the side.
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Taking small sections of hair at a time, pull your hair over the Flexi Comb and tuck under the edge.
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The change was noted immediately, and my heavens, what a great gnashing of teeth and pulling of hair .
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He pulled and her hair flew out over her winter coat.
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Tonya is pulling her hair back into a ponytail.
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The lean wind grips him, twisting and pulling his hair .
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During the day, I pulled my hair back into a knot that reminded me that I was married.
ruffle
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The wind ruffled his greying hair .
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A strong breeze ruffled Crossley's hair and made him shiver.
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They kissed Guks and ruffled his hair .
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I had seen her ruffle his hair as though he were a little boy.
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Nicholas leant down and ruffled his cold hair .
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Still she felt that breeze ruffling her hair , biting at her nose.
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I don't want to ruffle my hair .
smooth
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Then, with a single gesture, the three waiting figures smoothed back their hair and advanced warily to meet him.
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Springing up, she smoothed back her tousled hair and hurriedly unbolted the door to Bethany smiling at her.
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He held her close, smoothing back her hair , his big hands so gentle.
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He would remember smoothing back her hair .
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She smoothed the hair back from the dead face.
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Dare she touch her forehead? Smooth her hair ?
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To create this graceful and sophisticated look, Michael used Salon Formula Mousse to smooth hair into a perfect conical shape.
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She smooths down her hair , tipping the beret back to its original angle.
stroke
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He stroked her fair hair before taking it.
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Absently, she stroked his hair .
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That hot mouth moved over her hot, shivering skin, inciting fierce moans of desire as she stroked his dark hair .
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She stroked his hair tenuously, as if afraid of being told not to.
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That night her father sat on the edge of her bed and stroked her hair , as if she were still a little girl.
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She held me tenderly and stroked my hair , and said nothing until I was calm again.
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Late one night I stirred from a deep sleep to find Dad sitting beside my bed, gently stroking my hair .
tear
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Its usual reaction when abused by an attacker is to tear out its own hair rather than attempt to bite.
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The first to rise asks Lisa how she finds comfort in cutting herself and tearing out her hair .
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And here is the Duchess of Alba, tearing at her hair in a rage over some trifling remark.
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Granny Weatherwax lay in it, her dress torn , her hair uncoiling from its rock-hard bun.
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Her clothes were torn , and her hair was a mess, but there was no damage.
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Anyone else would be tearing his hair out, confronted by a pack of jabbering foreigners, but does Feargal?
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Surely it can only harvest a crop of bald heads as human beings tear out their hair over it?
toss
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When she tossed her head her hair fell around her shoulders and upper arms in a lovely auburn cascade.
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Jazz tossed his hair back for the first time to take in what was going on.
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I tossed my hair and glided on to the stage.
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Automatically, she tossed back her hair and smiled.
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She tossed her short black hair .
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She sat down at the table for two Roman had selected, and tossed her hair back from her face.
wash
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I wash my hair and leave it to dry naturally.
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Last night she had washed her hair in the metal tub, and today it shone.
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We had to wash our own hair and mend our own clothes.
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I took a shower and washed my hair with his yucca blossom shampoo.
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Anne stayed at home for a week, saw nobody, and washed her hair every day.
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There was no indoor plumbing, so I had to wash my hair by a community well.
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She had bathed and washed her hair during the evening before her admission to hospital.
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I ask Doi-san if I may wash her hair but she refuses.
wear
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Melanie started wearing her hair in stiff plaits, in the manner of a squaw.
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The men wear their hair to the shoulders and women dress in tunics.
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I wear my hair long and I comb it forward to hide as much as possible of my face.
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He took his key from the floor clerk, who wore her hair in braids.
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The victim has been scalped and the priest wears the hair .
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She wears her henna-ed hair chopped short, someplace be-tween punk and tomboy.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be tearing your hair out
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Anyone else would be tearing his hair out, confronted by a pack of jabbering foreigners, but does Feargal?
crop of dark hair/blonde curls etc
do your/sb's hair/nails/make-up etc
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I paint her face and do her hair.
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I said, I did , I was approached about who does your hair?
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It's to do with the hair.
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Now, do you want me to do your make-up, or not?
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One test of our response to the change made by age is what we decide to do about grey hair.
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She said that the day of the wedding, she should do my hair first.
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The working class adolescent of the 60s had quite a job deciding what to do with his hair.
dry mouth/skin/lips/hair etc
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Finesse's hairspray formulations are non-sticky, and yet give perfect control when applied to dry hair.
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For 24 hours a day, the irritation caused by severely dry skin verges on torture.
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In places the green is so thick on the page that it develops a gloss like the dried skin of oil paint.
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Just as you care for dry skin on the face, the scalp needs a soothing touch ... gentle cleansing and moisturising.
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Make sure you use a moisturising shampoo and conditioner for dry hair.
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Simply spray Hot Shapes on to clean, dry hair before setting to get instant hold with a glossy finish.
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Specific questioning showed symptoms of dry eyes and dry mouth.
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There may be a dry burning sensation; a dry mouth, ropy mucus, mouth ulcers.
flyaway hair
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Cream Silk Hot Oil Therapy is a deep conditioner, developed to add strength and body to fine, flyaway hair.
have a good/fine/thick etc head of hair
have your hair cut/your house painted etc
keep your hair/shirt on!
let your hair down
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Among the many booksellers and publishers whom I spotted letting their hair down on the dance floor was independent publisher Christopher Hurst.
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He liked this: what his pub was all about, for people to let their hair down.
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In the second half Complicite let their hair down in their own inimitable way.
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Man's got ta let his hair down.
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Out in the pasture, the princess let her hair down.
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This was the day our friends let their hair down and spoke with amazing frankness.
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We know when we can afford to let our hair down and when we can't.
not see hide nor hair of sb
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I haven't seen hide nor hair of him in months.
shock of hair
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He moved, and his shock of hair caught the sun as he raked a hand through it.
split hairs
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Batard is a little sweeter than Chevalier but perhaps that's splitting hairs; both these wines are excellent.
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Let's stop splitting hairs and get back to the main issue.
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But I don't want to split hairs.
toss your head/hair
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The girl tossed her hair and twisted in her chair.
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And the mare, as if finally understanding, begins to strain, tosses her head wildly, pulls at the reins.
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His horse snorted, tossing its head so that foam flew in dark patches on the ground.
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I tossed my hair and glided on to the stage.
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Karen tossed her head back, sending her hair over her left shoulder.
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The animal plunged to a halt, snorting and tossing its head nervously as water sprayed into the air around them.
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The Lieutenant's horse was tossing its head, snorting, raising its bright hooves high as it trampled the crop.
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Then the fox tossed his head and gulped down the Gingerbread Man.
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Two goats will circle head to tail in a display of strength, tossing their heads and posturing and grunting at each other.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a small boy with blond hair and blue eyes
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Brandi has nice long hair .
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pubic hair
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The couch is covered in cat hair .
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Yuck! There's a hair in my sandwich.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He scratched a bite on his arm and the little hairs bristled.
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He was in a cheerful mood, in spite of his severe look, his scraped-back hair , conservative clothes and businesslike glasses.
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His hair was dishevelled, his beard had grown around his neck as if he had spent the past four months away from civilisation.
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Let him see the hand go through the hair , as if combing the wetness out.
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Pride, all in her hair .
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She ran her hand approvingly through her wavy auburn hair .
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The Trinity House records of the time describe him as 5 feet 8 inches tall, with black hair and dark complexion.