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Coiffure

A headdress, or manner of dressing the hair.

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Verb group 6

Curry 84% connected

To dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; -- said of leather.

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Curry 84% connected

To dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; -- said of leather.

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Dress 84% connected

To direct; to put right or straight; to regulate; to order.

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Dress 84% connected

To direct; to put right or straight; to regulate; to order.

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Groom 84% connected

A boy or young man; a waiter; a servant; especially, a man or boy who has charge of horses, or the stable.

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Groom 84% connected

A boy or young man; a waiter; a servant; especially, a man or boy who has charge of horses, or the stable.

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Bang 76% connected

To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly.

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Beehive 76% connected

A hive for a swarm of bees. Also used figuratively.

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Bob 76% connected

Anything that hangs so as to play loosely, or with a short abrupt motion, as at the end of a string; a pendant; as, the bob at the end of a kite's ta…

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Braid 76% connected

To weave, interlace, or entwine together, as three or more strands or threads; to form into a braid; to plait.

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Chignon 76% connected

A knot, boss, or mass of hair, natural or artificial, worn by a woman at the back of the head.

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Fringe 76% connected

An ornamental appendage to the border of a piece of stuff, originally consisting of the ends of the warp, projecting beyond the woven fabric; but mor…

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Plait 76% connected

A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat; as, a box plait.

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Pompadour 76% connected

A crimson or pink color; also, a style of dress cut low and square in the neck; also, a mode of dressing the hair by drawing it straight back from th…

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Roach 76% connected

A cockroach.

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Thatch 76% connected

Straw, rushes, or the like, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain.

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Tress 76% connected

A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet.

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Twist 76% connected

To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.

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Wave 76% connected

See Waive.

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Manner of action 2

Bob 76% connected

Anything that hangs so as to play loosely, or with a short abrupt motion, as at the end of a string; a pendant; as, the bob at the end of a kite's ta…

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Wave 76% connected

See Waive.

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Groom 76% connected

A boy or young man; a waiter; a servant; especially, a man or boy who has charge of horses, or the stable.

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Hair 76% connected

The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of an animal, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole of…

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Component part 2

Lock 70% connected

A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair.

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Rat 70% connected

One of several species of small rodents of the genus Mus and allied genera, larger than mice, that infest houses, stores, and ships, especially the N…

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Synonym 4

Arrange 92% connected

To put in proper order; to dispose (persons, or parts) in the manner intended, or best suited for the purpose; as, troops arranged for battle.

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Coif 92% connected

A cap.

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Dress 92% connected

To direct; to put right or straight; to regulate; to order.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Set 92% connected

of Set

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