Hairlore

Quick meaning: Hairlore is a noun meaning (rare) Knowledge about hair; hair folklore.

Meaning

(rare) Knowledge about hair; hair folklore.

Example Sentences

1988, Remar Sutton, Body worry, Penguin (Non-Classics) →ISBN Barbers are the priests of hair lore, so you may listen to what they've learned from any confessionals, but don't automatically take their word as correct.

Baldness also has a further symbolic connection with one's restoration to grace. Giles Constable's magisterial study of beard- and hair-lore in the Middle Ages demonstrates that the shaving of one's hair could signify 'a separation from […]

"Smoot documents his ... ah ... problem, one might safely say, with a three-volume history of hairlore, in which it is shown that abundant hair has always symbolized vitality, virility, the will to triumph, and its lack, poverty and impotence.

[…] as much to my strong belief in the diaspora as a heuristic construct for interpreting much of African American expressive invention as it does to my larger, shared fascination for the powerful dynamic of hair-lore in African diaspora everyday life.

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