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- verb Present participle of
backcomb .
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Examples
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When I started upper school at 11, I used to do my hair up in a big quiff and lots of backcombing – it wasn't really in fashion, but I just started doing it.
How to dress your age Alice Fisher 2010
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Raf Simons at Jil Sander showed severe chignons and backcombing, topped with a faux pillbox hat complete with net veil.
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A prodigious amount of backcombing and a preponderance of blondes created a fair few leonine manes but the effect was more catwalk queen than Lion King.
Has the Little Black Dress finally fallen out of fashion? Jess Cartner-Morley in Paris 2010
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Those hairdos consisted of ratting, backcombing, and enough hairspray to be totally responsible for the Ozone problems we have today.
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Shards of pine palm and baby conifers added unwonted volume while steady backcombing against a succession of branches had created a Byzantine intricacy of form.
Archive 2007-03-01 Geraldine Moorkens Byrne 2007
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Shards of pine palm and baby conifers added unwonted volume while steady backcombing against a succession of branches had created a Byzantine intricacy of form.
Behind Me, The Lights of the City Geraldine Moorkens Byrne 2007
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Heated rollers and backcombing give lift to your roots before your hair is twisted into an understated up-do.
Evening Standard - Home Jasmine Gardner 2011
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Heated rollers and backcombing give lift to your roots before your hair is twisted into an understated up-do.
Evening Standard - Home Jasmine Gardner 2011
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Heated rollers and backcombing give lift to your roots before your hair is twisted into an understated up-do.
Evening Standard - Home Jasmine Gardner 2011
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She built height for this early updo by winding hair on pop-can-sized rollers, backcombing, then, the coup de grace, spiralling a layer of hair smoothly around the form.
Thestar.com - Home Page David Graham 2011
treeseed commented on the word backcombing
Backcombing is a way of combing hair which is used to create volume as well as to create certain hairstyles. Backcombing, also known as "teasing", means repeatedly combing the hair towards the scalp, causing the hair to tangle and knot up. This method is often used in creating various big hair styles such as beehives and dreadlocks.
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Also known as ratting.
February 3, 2008