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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun plural Small loose pieces of material, such as hairs or wool, removed with a comb.

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  • noun fragments of hair etc removed with a comb

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Examples

  • To wreathe her wrinkled brow with well saved "combings" --

    Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs 1873

  • Vague personal belongings, such as combings, handkerchiefs, a spectacle case, a hairbrush, were found tucked away in

    Cheerful—By Request Edna Ferber 1926

  • Inland, they could perceive other sand-hills, higher than that to which they had climbed, and long crested "combings", with deep valleys between; but not one object to gladden their sight, nothing that offered promise of either food, drink, or shelter.

    The Boy Slaves Mayne Reid 1850

  • So much has come out that I have a great big box full of these “combings.”

    How I Take Care Of My Hair | Edwardian Promenade 2009

  • The next instant she was in the trough, her leerail buried till the ocean was level with her hatch-combings, sea after sea breaking over her weather rail and sweeping what remained exposed of the deck with icy deluges.

    THE "FRANCIS SPAIGHT" 2010

  • In the meantime she lay dead, her lee yardarms almost touching the sea, the sea creaming solidly to her hatch-combings across the buried, unseen rail.

    CHAPTER XXIX 2010

  • The four categories I use in wool sorting are: best (3 inches or longer,) shorts (less than 3 Inches in length), combings, and mats.

    Archive 2009-02-26 FUZZARELLY 2009

  • It combings downhill speed with flashy aerial maneuvers as skiers propel themselves over a succession of bumps.

    Donna Weinbrecht 2008

  • With all this, in order to cover up the failures of your government - a visible symbol of betrayal of the much-propagated cause of the common masses of Jharkhand - you the people in power are trying to attack us, sending troops to create white terror by regular combings and savage brutalities.

    CPI(Maoist) - An Open Letter To Sudhir Mahato, Dy. CM of Jharkhand Abhay N 2007

  • The same thing is done with debris taken off the body, dried secretion and bite marks, fingernail scrapings, as well, pubic hair combings, and so on.

    CNN Transcript Jun 1, 2006 2006

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