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  • noun Plural form of hairnet.

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Examples

  • From selecting an ice cold carton of whole milk to watching the ladies in hairnets plonk another helping of mashed potatoes onto a divided tray, steam rising up and giving the women's round faces a healthy glow.

    French Word-A-Day: 2007

  • From selecting an ice cold carton of whole milk to watching the ladies in hairnets plonk another helping of mashed potatoes onto a divided tray, steam rising up and giving the women's round faces a healthy glow.

    rab - French Word-A-Day 2007

  • From selecting an ice cold carton of whole milk to watching the ladies in hairnets plonk another helping of mashed potatoes onto a divided tray, steam rising up and giving the women's round faces a healthy glow.

    French Word-A-Day: 2007

  • I refused to wear one of those wack hairnets so I improvised with a look that respected the rules and respected fashion at the same time.

    Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

  • Today, the workers wear uniforms and hairnets, even in the storefront of the plant where Del Rey sells tortillas to the public.

    Schools in the dark about tainted lunches 2009

  • The counter was set up as a giant loop so that simultaneously we could watch them flip the burgers while people shopped for hairnets and socks.

    You can do anything in a department store these days – including eat. But it doesn't mean you should 2011

  • I refused to wear one of those wack hairnets so I improvised with a look that respected the rules and respected fashion at the same time.

    Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

  • Today, he has a new job in town: supervising technicians in smocks and hairnets who create material for solar panels in a white-floored laboratory.

    Clean Tech Arrives, With Limited Payoff Vauhini Vara 2011

  • Toss in a few bowling trophies, dudes in bathrobes and women wearing Valkyrie horns, red pageboy cuts, and tight-fitting purple jumpsuits and hairnets, and you might have a sense of this homage to the 1998 Coen brothers' cult comedy, "The Big Lebowski."

    Paying Homage to the Dude Aparna Mukherjee 2011

  • Behind plastic curtain-strip doors, workers in hairnets, smocks and surgical masks move with assembly-line efficiency in the 40-degree Fahrenheit room warm temperature affects the caviar's taste separating eggs from ovary, then washing, salting and tinning the caviar.

    The Great California Caviar Rush Stinson Carter 2011

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