headrag

See also: head rag

English

Noun

headrag (plural headrags)

1. Alternative form of head rag.
   • 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 […]

   • 1993, Tabitha King, One on One, Signet Books, →ISBN, page 330:

     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.

   • 1995, Gary Carey, editor, Their Eyes Were Watching God: Notes, Lincoln, Neb.: Cliffs Notes, Inc., →ISBN, page 24:

     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.