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hair-powder
A scented powder made of fine flour or starch, used in the 18th c. for sprinkling the hair or wig in hairdressing.
1663Wood Life (O.H.S.) I. 475 To my barber for haire powder, 6d. 1800Herschel in Phil. Trans. XC. 444, I examined the focus of light, by throwing hair-powder, with a puff, into the air. 1864–5Knight Passages Work. Life I. 220 Hair-powder had altogether gone out. |