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hairpinned en · ADJ

Etymology

From hairpin + -ed.

Meanings

1. Wearing hairpins.
   • Well, if the Frau Pastor preferred behaving like a log instead of a proud mother — Frau Dosch shrugged her shoulder, put on a coloured dimity jacket over her petticoat, kicked off her slippers, and went, stockinged and hairpinned, to bed and to instant sleep. 1914, Elizabeth Von Arnim, The Pastor's Wife, page 235:
   • Here was a young woman dressed in drab and severely hairpinned. 2006, Karen Ann McNeill, Building the California Women's Movement, page 128:
2. Containing hairpin turns.
   • Cross the bridge over the lake and climb a hairpinned road to the village. 2019, Stuart Haines, Walking in Abruzzo, page 245:
   • That said, what they show is still numbing: “Look at that crease,” says Wick, pointing out a cumulus-shaped gash of white in the steepest, most hairpinned part of the river course. 2000, Todd Balf, The Last River: The Tragic Race for Shangri-la, page 14:
   • In the early days, there was often a decrease in the number of cars as we climbed the dramatically hairpinned road to Bikfaya, the large town just below Dhour that I knew for its famous peaches and a fantastic red-and-tinsel-colored toy shop, "Kaiser Amer." 2013, Edward W. Said, Out Of Place: A Memoir:
3. Consisting of or containing a hairpin ribozyme
   • The resulting DNA ends consist of blunt phosphorylated recombination signal end, and coding ends with hairpinned termini. 1997, Maurizio Zanetti, Donald J. Capra, Antibodies, page 87:
4. Produced by a hairpin transfer.
   • The hairpinned substrate was incubated with extracts from cells infected by both AAV and adenovirus. 2005, Jonathan Kerr, Susan Cotmore, Marshall E. Bloom, Parvoviruses, page 194:

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