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ˈcorn row
Also corn-row, cornrow.
[f. corn n.1 + row n.1]
1. A line in which Indian corn is planted; a row of Indian corn. U.S.
1769G. Washington Diary 30 Sept. (1925) I. 347 That part of it which the Corn rows run through received no other Plowing. 1882Sweet & Knox Sk. from ‘Texas Siftings’ 51 We did not think that prancing over corn rows all day would be..a rest. 1932S. A. Brown Southern Road ii. 62 Dey come to hear Ma Rainey from de little river settlements, From blackbottom cornrows and from lumber camps.
2. (Usu. written as one word and freq. in pl.) A style of braiding the hair adopted by American Blacks from African women (occas. in wider use), in which the hair is parted into rows and plaited tightly in geometric ribbing over the head.
1971Tuscaloosa (Alabama) News 5 Sept. 6c/3 They may find ‘a friend with nimble fingers’, as Ana Maria Covington..does when she wants her short hair in corn rows. 1973Newsweek 26 Feb. 44 From ghetto streets to college campuses, with-it black women—and more and more black men—are putting their hair into African-style ‘cornrows’, intricate patterns of braids all over the skull separated by half-inch parts. 1976Drum (E. Afr. ed.) June 10/3 She is completely liberated. True, she sports a corn-row, faded jeans and a see-through sweater, bra-less, of course. 1985Washington Post 28 July a10/1 They sported cornrows and crew cuts and wore pop jewelry and crucifixes.
Hence ˈcornrow v. trans., to arrange (hair) in such braids; ˈcornrowed ppl. a., ˈcornrowing vbl. n.
1971Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News 5 Sept. 6c/1 Others are braiding or ‘cornrowing’ their hair in a return to childhood hairstyles, newly discovered to be a custom for some adult African women. Ibid. 8 Nov. 10/6 Corn-rowing is different from common braiding because the corn rows do not hang loose. 1981Westindian World 31 July 14/2 (Advt.), Plaiting, beading, cornrowing, weaving with extra hair. 1984Washington Post 2 July b1/1 Among those applauding him was not only a cornrowed black woman just back from Africa, but a white woman in a $600 Bill Blass dress. |