hairbowed

English

Adjective

hairbowed (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of hair-bowed.
   • 1942 August 10, Ruth MacKay, “White Collar Girl”, in Chicago Daily Tribune, volume CI, number 190, page 19:

     The uniformed girl pages in large banks in New York [as in Chicago]. . . . hatless, hairbowed girls on the subway . . . . the young Vermont twins—country school marms—waiting on table at a Green mountain resort, bright as a new dollar . . . . the woman bank employé from Jersey City remarking that never before have women had such an opportunity to study finance as thru the timely courses of the American Institute of Banking [there are more than 11,000 women members of the institute] — she doesn’t agree there are no careers for women in banking.

   • 1944 November 21, Tampa Morning Tribune, 50th year, number 326, Tampa, Fla., page two:

     She’s 12 inches tall, ringleted and hairbowed, beautifully dressed.

   • 1964 October 23, Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, 63rd year, number 6, Saskatoon, Sask., page twenty:

     Gaily dressed in party clothes, even to red “velvet” shoes . . . hairbowed in saucy twin pony tails, she’s bound to win any heart!

   • 1980, Hope Cooke, Time Change: An Autobiography, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 185:

     Hope Leezum, invincibly hairbowed by now, pigtails at a defiant angle, adores the company.

   • 2022, Kate Manning, Gilded Mountain: A Novel, Scribner, →ISBN, page 51:

     Next door to him lived the Havillands, where hairbowed Millie from my school days kept a pony.