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Definition of Hair drier

1. Noun. A hand-held electric blower that can blow warm air onto the hair; used for styling hair.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hair Drier

Literary usage of Hair drier

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Human Vitality and Efficiency Under Prolonged Restricted Diet by Francis Gano Benedict (1919)
"For this purpose a small hair-drier is employed which moves a ... This hair-drier is light in weight and provided with a universal motor so that it can be ..."

2. Electrical Contracting: Shop System, Estimating, Wiring, Construction by Louis John Auerbacher (1908)
"hair drier. Fig. 218 illustrates a hair drier for hair-dressing establishments. Fig. 219 shows an electric massage device for barber shops. FIG. 219. ..."

3. Lectures on the science of human life by Sylvester Graham (1854)
"... (333) is all the hair requires, and the application of any other oil to it always serves to suppress the natural secretion, and to leave the hair drier ..."

4. Hygiene of the Nursery: Including the General Regimen and Feeding of Infants by Louis Starr (1913)
"... oil secreted to keep it tidy; artificial oily applications only act temporarily, and by blocking up the pores of the skin tend to make the hair drier ..."

5. The British Journal of Homoeopathy edited by John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, John Rutherfurd Russell (1865)
"Every night till to-day, toothache; daily loss of hair from the occiput; hair over the right ear matted for the breadth of four fingers; hair drier than ..."

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