hair drier

See also: hair-drier and hairdrier

English

Noun

hair drier (plural hair driers)

1. Alternative form of hairdryer.
   • 1997, Mike Lawrence, Which? Way to Fix It, London: Which? Books, →ISBN, page 46:

     Many domestic appliances contain heating elements, usually either the exposed single-wire type found in hair driers, toasters and so on, or the metal-sheathed, enclosed type found in cookers, immersion heaters and kettles

   • 2011, Laurence Cossé, translated by Alison Anderson, An Accident in August, New York, N.Y.: Europa Editions, →ISBN, page 132:

     His tone was not particularly friendly, but he spoke loudly, to be heard above the roar of the hair drier.

   • 2015, Meg Cabot, Royal Wedding (The Princess Diaries; XI), New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, page 50:

     Paolo doesn’t like to shout over the whine of hair driers.