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Dandruff   Listen
noun
Dandruff  n.  (Written also dandriff)  A scurf which forms on the head, and comes off in small scales or particles.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Dandruff" Quotes from Famous Books



... its diseases. Generally speaking, they are sure indices. Let us imagine a problem: What is the relative respectability of the hair and the scalp, close neighbors, offspring of the same osseous tissue? Turn to baldness and dandruff, and you have your answer. To be bald is no more than a genial jocosity, a harmless foible—but to have dandruff is almost as bad as to have beri-beri. Hence the fact that the hair is in Class I, while the scalp is at the bottom ...
— A Book of Burlesques • H. L. Mencken

... Topeka and visit Dad Rother ... a columnist on a newspaper there, of more than local fame ... an obviously honest-to-God bachelor ... he is afflicted with dandruff and his hair is almost gone. He shows me photographs of Mackworth and of Uncle Bill Struthers, each autographed ...
— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp



Words linked to "Dandruff" :   pityriasis, scurf, exfoliation



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