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hair-bowed en · ADJ

Etymology

From hair bow + -ed.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Wearing a hair bow.
   • He loves them all — the short, crying kindergartners who come in clinging to their mothers on the first day; the freshly scrubbed, hair-bowed little girls; the rough-and-tumble boys. 2004 September 17, Kathryn Watson Quigg, “Building gains new life”, in The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C., page 5N:
   • Hello Kitty, that charming little hair-bowed sweetheart that’s made the folks at Sanrio very, very wealthy for the last several decades, is apparently, according to Hello Kitty expert Christine R. Yano, “not a cat.” 2014 September 1, Leslie Gray Streeter, “Hello Kitty not a cat? Please!”, in The Palm Beach Post, volume 106, number 151, page E1:
   • Dressed in short skirts, pig-tailed and hair-bowed, the seniors vied for prizes in costumes, played games and were taken to the movies (half-price) by their junior sisters. 1942 May 10, Louise Burger, “Campus Capers Vary From ‘Look Alike’ Games To Half-Price ‘Kid Day’ Movies: This K. P. All Fun: Tallahassee Seniors Forget Their Dignity For Kid Day Frolic”, in The Miami Herald, 32nd year, number 158, pages four—E:

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