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  • Except, of course, she's wearing that hair-net/kerchief thing.

    Deneuve, Tart Humor Elevate 'Potiche' John Anderson 2011

  • If, however you define “rock” to mean living an existence based around the consumption of heavy-metal music, beer, reefer in a series of drab, ill-furnished basement apartments subsidized by a serious of hair-net jobs, then this is not a commendable aspiration.

    Wednesday, Feb. 17 – The Bleat. 2010

  • A middle-aged woman with her hair-net and shopping did the bump with a Cadbury vending machine.

    Pretty 2010

  • Fortunata then removed the bracelets from her pudgy arms and held them out to the admiring Scintilla, and by and by she took off her anklets and even her yellow hair-net, which was twenty-four carats fine, she would have us know!

    Satyricon 2007

  • Before Stefan had a chance to even introduce himself, the ‘Ena Sharples’ in her dressing gown, slippers and hair-net, launched into him and Conservative policies.

    Great Welsh Political Anecdotes: No 94 2007

  • Old she now was, to be sure, but still wearing three articles forever traditional to her person — a white ribbon about her throat, a pearl ring on her finger and a hair-net over her hair.

    The Road Leads On 2003

  • It was about three o'clock in the morning when she had found not only the hair-net but the parts for the half-finished string quartet.

    Funeral In Berlin Deighton, Len, 1929- 1964

  • Not like Vulkan - all tobacco and untanned-leather smells, which she knew came from a bottle, ever since she had looked for aspirins that night and found his hair-net.

    Funeral In Berlin Deighton, Len, 1929- 1964

  • Scintilla, and by and by she took off her anklets and even her yellow hair-net, which was twenty-four carats fine, she would have us know!

    The Satyricon — Complete 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

  • Scintilla, and by and by she took off her anklets and even her yellow hair-net, which was twenty-four carats fine, she would have us know!

    The Satyricon — Volume 02: Dinner of Trimalchio 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

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