Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A mesh for holding the hair in place.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A net worn by women to confine the hair. Compare caul, 1 , crespine.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a small net that some women wear over their hair to keep it in place.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A net designed to keep hair up and out of the way. (used, e.g., while cooking)

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a small net that some women wear over their hair to keep it in place

Etymologies

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hair +‎ net

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Examples

  • Please tell me that his hairnet is going to expand every week until it's a mosquito net.

    Mehovers 2009

  • Well if NYC cyclist keep an eye out, you can't hide phylactery under a long sleeve jersey, well maybe he wears a old 'hairnet' helmet to pass.

    The Indignity of Commuting by Bicycle: Bike Month Round-Up BikeSnobNYC 2008

  • An elderly woman wearing a hairnet, apron, and a nametag with DORIS engraved on it in big black letters worked behind the cafeteria counter.

    Show Stoppah Thomas Slater 2011

  • Violations can be as seemingly harmless as one employee who forgoes wearing a hairnet to far more serious issues.

    City Gives Le Cirque And Gramercy Tavern 'C' Grades The Huffington Post 2011

  • The pathologist's assistant followed close behind her, with a trolley bearing all the paraphernalia of post-mortem revival: a tray of disposable surgical instruments; several racks of electronic equipment; an arterial pump fed from three glass tanks the size of water-coolers; and something resembling a hairnet made out of grey superconducting wire.

    Archive 2010-06-01 Blue Tyson 2010

  • An older lady, one of the servers, walked into the cafeteria dressed in a white apron, hairnet, and black-framed bifocals, carrying a portable radio.

    Show Stoppah Thomas Slater 2011

  • Elsewhere, Xenia, in a hairnet and curlers, asks sweetly — via a production rep — if she can cut the very long bathroom line before the live show.

    The Voice: 8 Things You Didn't See on TV 2011

  • Elsewhere, Xenia, in a hairnet and curlers, asks sweetly — via a production rep — if she can cut the very long bathroom line before the live show.

    The Voice: 8 Things You Didn't See on TV 2011

  • The pathologist's assistant followed close behind her, with a trolley bearing all the paraphernalia of post-mortem revival: a tray of disposable surgical instruments; several racks of electronic equipment; an arterial pump fed from three glass tanks the size of water-coolers; and something resembling a hairnet made out of grey superconducting wire.

    Free Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Distress 1 - Greg Egan Blue Tyson 2010

  • She hardly recognized the lunch lady without her blue hairnet!

    Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew: Time Thief Keene Carolyn 2011

  • Next up, a leather halo padded with wool or cotton—referred to as a “hairnet”—did little more than protect a cyclist’s ears and face “from dragging the ground when sliding across pavement,” as the product review website Gearist put it.

    In the ’80s, We Decided Bike Helmets Make Riders Safe. Cyclists Have Paid for It Ever Since. Marion Renault 2023

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