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  • (n): a small cylidrical box with a quarter-dollar sized hole in the lid that was part of the often matched set of grooming items found on the Victorian lady's dressing table, used as a receptacle for hair removed from the hair brush. Some of the hair thus collected was plaited and braided and used as a component of pins, brooches and other jewelry items of the Victorian era.

    January 4, 2009

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    Mine goes in the compost bucket.

    January 5, 2009

  • Victorians: big recyclers.

    January 5, 2009

  • Gosh, that's dumb. ;-)

    January 6, 2009

  • Oh, come on - you know they were just using it to cast hexes on their stalkees and their enemies.

    January 6, 2009

  • Silly wordies, don't you know - you save the hair for stuffing pincushions...

    January 6, 2009

  • Some people shed enough hair to stuff the cushions of couches and other furniture movables.

    January 6, 2009

  • rhymes with Sarkozy. One more and we have the makings of a limerick.

    January 7, 2009