hairlore
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- ""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."
- "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."
- "1992, Norma J. Roberts, Columbus Museum of Art, Elijah Pierce, woodcarver, University of Washington Press →ISBN More than a mere ornamental surface, hair and hair preparation are elements of an essential body of emic material referred to as African American hairlore, and it can be a near metaphysical index to one's very soul, being, psychology, […]"
- "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 […]"
- "[…] 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."