Hair Styles
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Hair Styles
- Close-cropped head, cut so close to the scalp that the patches of gray are like a light stain —George Garrett
- Hair … almost as if ironed in place —H. E. Bates
- Hair … brushed straight back —like he was wearing a hairpiece or as though a small black beaver was lying on top of his skull —Donald McCaig
- Hair … cropped so short in back that he looked like a Marine in boot camp —Jonathan Valin
- (Her chestnut) hair, cut short, closed about her neck like a choker —Arthur A. Cohen
- Hair hanging down, straight, as if it were cut out of wood and painted —Rumer Godden
This is slightly modified from the dialect spoken by a character in Godden’s story No More Indians: ‘outa’ and ‘hangin’ instead of ‘out of’ and ‘hanging.’
- Hair hanging … like a brush across his forehead —Ella Leffland
- Hair hanging like seaweed —John Updike
- Hair … hanging loose down to her shoulders, like a child’s unbound for a party —Eudora Welty
- Hair … lay on her forehead like a ruffled crest —James Joyce
- Hair parted from the middle of her forehead like the two panels of a curtain —Saul Bellow
- Hair pulled back tight as if to punish it —Marge Piercy
- Hair … razor cut and blow-dried and sprayed so firmly into place that he looked like he was wearing a helmet —Robert B. Parker
- Hair, so tightly braided it felt stitched on, showing her bare scalp like little seams all over her skull —Helen Hudson
- Hair that grew long and thick around his face like ivy round a window —Helen Hudson
- Hair..twisted like a pastry into a knot —Patricia Henley
- Hair was cut close to his scalp, like freshly mowed grass —Daphne Merkin
- (Her white) hair was so permanently waved and arranged that it looked like concrete —Noël Coward
- Her white hair … stood high above her face like a chef’s cap —Nancy Huddleston Packer
- His hair … covered half his forehead like a bowl —Reynolds Price
- His hair … cut short as that of a monk, seemed like a barber-college special —Thomas McGuane
- His shiny brown hair was razor cut, wrapped like a scarf around his ears —Jonathan Valin
- Pale fluffy hair whipped up beautifully on the top of her head like confectioner’s cream —Elizabeth Bowen
- Parted it [her hair] evenly, like the curtains of a neat house —Saul Bellow
- Short-cropped hair hugging her head like a bangle bracelet —Arthur A. Cohen
- Straight hair, cut like a little train to a point at the nape of her neck —Eudora Welty
- Wore her hair away from her forehead, like a cloud which a little wind in May peels off finely —Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Wore her hair nearly to her waist, in long pastel strands like the trailing branches of a weeping willow —Harvey Swados
- Wore it [hair] as though he’d have thought it indecent exposure to have allowed anyone to catch even a glimpse of his eyebrows, his ears, or the back of his neck —George Bagby
Similes Dictionary, 1st Edition. © 1988 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.