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backcomb

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Definitions

  1. To hold hair and comb it towards the head, thus giving it a bushier look.

Word origin

From back + comb.

Used in a sentence

  • Her dark-blonde hair, worn long at Oxford, had been cut and backcombed, Diana-style, and quivered when she shook her head.
  • You and your fit friends anyway / I'd take them all out any day / They all got backcombs anyway
  • There was a part of a bottle of liquor on the table—the furniture of the hall was disarranged—a pair of slippers, two small combs, and a backcomb were lying near an easy chair.

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