Backcomb

"Backcomb" in a Sentence (5 examples)

Her dark-blonde hair, worn long at Oxford, had been cut and backcombed, Diana-style, and quivered when she shook her head.

You and your fit friends anyway / I'd take them all out any day / They all got backcombs anyway

There was a part of a bottle of liquor on the table—the furniture of the hall was disarranged—a pair of slippers, two small combs, and a backcomb were lying near an easy chair.

A backcomb comprising a pair of oppositely disposed members of sheet material each provided with teeth along one margin, a pivot pin securing the members at one end in overlapping relation.

Her father had produced a pink crêpe de Chine blouse and a backcomb massed with brilliants—both of which she refused to wear.

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