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Definition of Tweezing
1. tweeze [v] - See also: tweeze
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tweezing
Literary usage of Tweezing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Cruise in the "Gorgon,": Or, Eighteen Months on H. M. S. "Gorgon", Engaged by William Cope Devereux (1869)
"Every alternate Tuesday is the general " tweezing day." They wear their hair
brushed up in a perpendicular heap. In the style of hair-dressing the females ..."
2. The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany: With by Delany (Mary) (1861)
"We had ogling and tweezing, and whispering and glancing; no eating or drinking,
or laughing and dancing: there was standing and walking, and fme ladies airs ..."
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