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wig block en · NOUN

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1. A simplified head model used to display wigs.
   • When the wig or other hairpiece has been made, it is pinned onto a malleable wig block and the hair is cut and styled in the required shape. 2003, Penny Delamar, The Complete Make-Up Artist: Working in Film, Fashion, Television and Theatre, page 165:
   • Next morning, Monday, after disposing of the embalmed head to a barber, for a block, I settled my own and comrade’s bill; using, however, my comrade’s money. 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 13”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

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hat block

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