Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The long hair along the top and sides of the neck of certain mammals, such as a horse or a male lion.
- noun A long thick growth of hair on a person's head.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The long hair growing on the neck and neighboring parts of some animals, as the horse, lion, etc., as distinguished from the shorter hair elsewhere.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The long and heavy hair growing on the upper side of, or about, the neck of some quadrupedal animals, as the horse, the lion, etc. See
Illust. ofhorse .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Longer hair growth on back of neck of an animal, especially a
horse orlion - noun Long or thick hair of a person's head.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun long coarse hair growing from the crest of the animal's neck
- noun growth of hair covering the scalp of a human being
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Realizing that every mane is unique, the byu-ti girls opened their very own in-house Byu-ti bar in February offering a myriad of customized diagnostic hair treatments to cater to every hair type.
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His mane is geometricized into a flame-like halo, and the whole composition is surrounded by an Arabic inscription set on a vegetal ground.
Archive 2006-08-01 JDsg 2006
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His mane is geometricized into a flame-like halo, and the whole composition is surrounded by an Arabic inscription set on a vegetal ground.
Cosmophilia: Islamic Art from the David Collection, Copenhagen JDsg 2006
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His waist-long, untamed mane is replaced by short, gray hair.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2006
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His newest horse, Harlow, named for her flaxen mane, is being raised in New Mexico for show.
September 2005 2005
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His mane is short and black, and he has a black tuft at the end of his tail, but no dark line runs along his back or crosses his shoulders.
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Venus had what society columnists and besotted male journalists referred to as a mane of cascading auburn hair and her intellectual pedigree came directly from the Sorbonne, but she was Italian, with an accent that only grew stronger and more mellifluous as the years went by.
Sugar Skull Denise Hamilton 2003
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Venus had what society columnists and besotted male journalists referred to as a mane of cascading auburn hair and her intellectual pedigree came directly from the Sorbonne, but she was Italian, with an accent that only grew stronger and more mellifluous as the years went by.
Sugar Skull Denise Hamilton 2003
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Knowledge passes from dance teacher into the student through the process of mane, which is often translated as imitation, but learning to dance is more a process of total identification than one of simple copying.
Geisha, A Life Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown 2002
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Knowledge passes from dance teacher into the student through the process of mane, which is often translated as imitation, but learning to dance is more a process of total identification than one of simple copying.
Geisha, A Life Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown 2002
missanthropist commented on the word mane
Ss in, "Hey mane, spare some air"?
April 20, 2009