单词 | hair-powder |
释义 | hair-powdern. A scented powder made of fine flour or starch, used in the 18th cent. for sprinkling the hair or wig in hairdressing. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > preparations used on the hair > [noun] > powders hair-powder1663 must1796 maréchal1841 1663 A. Wood Life & Times (1891) I. 475 To my barber for haire powder, 6d. 1800 W. Herschel in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 90 444 I examined the focus of light, by throwing hair-powder, with a puff, into the air. 1864–5 C. Knight Passages Working Life I. 220 Hair-powder had altogether gone out. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1663 |
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