MohicanMo‧hi‧can /məʊˈhiːkən $ moʊ-/ British English, Mo‧hawk /ˈməʊhɔːk $ ˈmoʊhɒːk/ American English noun [countable]Word Origin
WORD ORIGINMohican
Origin:
1900-2000 From the hairstyle worn by Native American men in J. Fenimore Cooper's novel Last of the Mohicans (1826)
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
Her vermilion Mohican projected from her shaved dome.
a hairstyle in which the hair is cut off the sides of the head, and the hair on top of the head is made to stick up and is sometimes brightly coloured—Mohican adjective: a Mohican haircut