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See also: back-comb
English
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]backcomb (third-person singular simple present backcombs, present participle backcombing, simple past and past participle backcombed)
- To hold hair and comb it towards the head, thus giving it a bushier look.
- Synonym: tease
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 5, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
- Her dark-blonde hair, worn long at Oxford, had been cut and backcombed, Diana-style, and quivered when she shook her head.
Translations
[edit]to hold hair and comb it towards the head
Noun
[edit]backcomb (plural backcombs)
- The hairstyle produced by backcombing.
- 2012, “Sex”, performed by The 1975:
- You and your fit friends anyway / I'd take them all out any day / They all got backcombs anyway
- (dated) A decorative comb worn as an ornament and to secure a hairstyle.
- 1876, Lex, Remarkable Criminal Trials in Bengal:
- 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.
- 1912, The Canadian Patent Office Record and Register of Copyrights and Trade Marks, volume 39, issues 1-6, page 252:
- 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.
- 1920, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, The Lost Girl, London: Martin Secker […], →OCLC:
- Her father had produced a pink crêpe de Chine blouse and a backcomb massed with brilliants—both of which she refused to wear.