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† hair-lace Obs.
[f. hair n. + lace.]
A string or tie for binding the hair; a fillet, headband; also, a fillet in Archit.
a1300Land Cokayne 69 in E.E.P. (1862) 158 Þe pilers..wiþ harlas and capitale. a1529Skelton El. Rummyng 145 Some haue no herelace, Theyr lockes about theyr face. 1580Sidney Arcadia iii. (1724) II. 485 She took off her hairlace, and would have cut off her fair hair. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 20 About their Heads they wear an Hairlace..not to tie their Hair up, which is short enough; but it may be, as our Dames in England, to keep the Wrinkles out of their Foreheads. 1738Swift Pol. Conversat. 205 They say, a marry'd Woman has nothing of her own, but her Wedding-Ring and her Hair-Lace. |