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单词 horsehair-dresser
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horsehair-dresser
C1. attributive and in other combinations, as horsehair crest, horsehair-crested adj., horsehair-dresser, horsehair glove, horsehair plume, etc.; in sense ‘covered with a fabric woven of horsehair’, as horsehair chair, horsehair cushion, horsehair sofa, etc.
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1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 304 The gordius is the seta equina, or horse-hair-worm, of the old writers.
1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist II. xxvii. 120 The very horse-hair seats of the chairs.
1852 E. M. Sewell Exper. of Life (1858) xiv. 95 A set of black horsehair chairs and a horsehair sofa.
1853 W. J. Hickie tr. Aristophanes Comedies II. 572 Strife of horse-hair-crested words.
1864 Earl of Derby tr. Homer Iliad vi. 546 Scar'd by the brazen helm and horse-hair plume.
1875 B. Meadows Clin. Observ. 61 Friction with horse hair gloves.
1897 Daily News 30 Apr. 3/3 The daughter of a horsehair dresser.
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