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单词 to put up, turn up hair
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to put up, turn up (one's) hair
P12. to put up, turn up (one's) hair: said of a girl when she exchanges her floating hair or ringlets for the dressed hair of womanhood; to do or put up, to let down (one's) hair(i.e. while dressing); also figurative; and of both men and women, to let (take) one's (back) hair down, to throw off reserve; to become confidential.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > beautify the hair [phrase]
to put up, turn up (one's) hair1662
the world > people > person > adult > be adult [verb (intransitive)] > become adult > become adult woman
to put up, turn up (one's) hair1662
to write oneself woman1729
the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > social intercourse or companionship > be sociable [verb (intransitive)] > throw off coldness or reserve
thaw1598
untune1609
unbend1746
relax1836
to let (take) one's (back) hair down1850
unbuckle1886
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 75 Married Women put up their hair within their Caps or Coifs.
1850 G. H. Lewes in Leader 7 Dec. 882/3 I am well aware that a little ranting and ‘letting down the back hair’ would have ‘told’ upon the audience with more noisy effect.
1921 W. de la Mare Mem. Midget iii. 15 On my seventeenth birthday I put up my hair, and was confirmed.
1925 N. Coward Vortex ii. 66 Helen and I have just had a grand heart-to-heart talk; we've undone our back hair.
1933 P. G. Wodehouse Heavy Weather vii. 116 You needn't be coy, Beach... No reporters present. We can take our hair down and tell each other our right names.
1951 W. H. Auden Nones (1952) 31 To let their hair down and be frank about The world.
1959 Listener 15 Oct. 608/1 Mr. Fredric Warburg has reminded us of this in a volume of autobiography..in which he lets down his hair.
1967 Guardian 3 Jan. 2/7 Lively young thing, I recall—but she'll have put her hair up by now.
1967 ‘C. Fremlin’ Prisoner's Base ix. 67 After you'd gone, Mother—he really let his back hair down. I was right, you know—he has been in prison.
1967 B. Wootton In World I never Made i. 36 Before it became customary for women of all ages to wear their hair short, one of the marks of entering upon adult status was to put one's hair ‘up’.
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