Headrag
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Headrag is a noun meaning Alternative form of head rag.
Meaning
Alternative form of head rag.
Example Sentences
He makes Janie hide her hair under headrags while she works in the store, so afraid is he that some other man might touch it or admire it.
He’s there and there she is, curled up fetally inside the shabby old orange sleeping bag on the mattress, the brocade headrag loosely scarving her bare head against the cold.
1981, Toni Morrison, interview with Charles Ruas in Danille Taylor-Guthrie (ed.), Conversations with Toni Morrison, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1994, p. 114, […] black women slaves in this country were not, by and large, domestics in the house, with the headrag. They worked out in the fields […]
Word Forms
- headrags
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