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Calendar of Border Papers
… for shot, saltpeter and sulpher and "straike nailes," 6; "hair clothes" to cover the powder, 2; "wayne roope," 2 dozen …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… a SET of box combs among his equipment for combing the hair 'smooth and even' [Holme (2000)]. Although box combs … of the leaves with sawdust has been used as an auburn hair dye. OED earliest date of use: 1652 Found described as …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… a braid comb as a long-toothed COMB intended to secure hair in a head dress [Cox (1966, pb 1969)]. This fits the …
Survey of London
… by 1782 (including a legacy of 200 from John Cob, a hair merchant of the parish) and in that year a faculty was …