hairwashing

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English

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Etymology

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From hair +‎ washing.

Noun

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hairwashing (usually uncountable, plural hairwashings)

  1. The washing of hair.
    • 1933, Mrs. White Mountain Smith [i.e., Dama Margaret Smith], Indian Tribes of the Southwest, Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, page 46:
      The wedding ceremony consists of hairwashings in yucca-root water and eating marriage mush from a wedding basket.
    • 1983, Lillian Cantleberry, Sarah’s Story, St. Louis, Mo.: Concordia Publishing House, →ISBN, page 148:
      Hagar did not come back to me for my massages, manicures, and hairwashings.
    • 1988, Augustus Y. Napier, The Fragile Bond: In Search of an Equal, Intimate and Enduring Marriage, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 296:
      We read to these children in tender tones, loving the snuggled warmth of their bodies, delighting in their baths and hairwashings and in their little clothes; enjoying the feel of their hands in ours on our long, naming-the-world walks.
    • 1985, Nicola West, Comeback, Toronto, Ont.: Harlequin Books, published 1986, →ISBN, page 41:
      Sometimes, she thought, Craig Gleniston did display those endearingly out-of-touch characteristics one expected of an academic—he’d evidently never heard of the short haircuts and blowdriers that made it unnecessary to give over an entire evening to hairwashing.