Hair Texture
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Hair Texture
- Dead-looking hair..as if it had been glued on —Willa Cather
- Frizzy brown hair like short feathers —Marianne Hauser
- A grand shock of hair, like the best type of sheepskin rug —Phyllis Bottome
The Point of Vantage, from which this is taken, leads off with a simile. Here it is in full context: “Teobaldo Kurt Dubrik was a large stout man with a grand shock of hair, like the best type of sheepskin rug.”
- Hair and mustache fluffy as down —Mark Helprin
See Also: MUSTACHES
- Hair as glossy as a blooded chestnut’s coat —Elizabeth Spencer
- Hair as sleek as a seal’s fur —Sarah Bird
- Hair … black and dense and glossy, like boot polish —Maeve Brennan
- Hair … coarse and slightly wavy, with just a trace of oil all over it, like a well-tossed salad —Roald Dahl
- Hair, frizzy like unravelled rope —D. H. Lawrence
- Hair … like a coiled piece of copper —Laurie Colwin
- Hair like a frizzled yellow sponge —Phyllis Bottome
- Hair like blown-up gold and finer than gold —Joyce Carol Oates
- Hair like dirty cotton —Loren D. Estleman
- Hair like fuzz on a tennis ball —Jean Thompson
- Hair like moth-eaten fur —Ellen Glasgow
- Hair like Persian lambs’ fur —Saul Bellow
- Hair like porcupine quills —Elizabeth Tallent
- Hair … like the raffia you had to soak before you could weave with it in a basket class —Saul Bellow
- Hair … matted and dry, like that of a sick animal —W. P. Kinsella
- Hair … tough as a rocking horse’s —Penelope Gilliatt
- Hair rich and dark, clustering thick as grapes or hyacinths —Elizabeth Spencer
- Hair … rough, like a mongrel dog’s —Frank Tuohy
- (Black,) shiny hair, hard as bristles —Ivan Turgenev
- (His curly straw) hair shone like frail golden wires on his head —James Stern
- Hair smooth as a cat’s —Jayne Anne Phillips
- Hair … soft as milkweed silk —McKinlay Kantor
- Hair … straight as a string —Dorothy Canfield Fisher
In her story Married Children, Fisher expands on this with, “She looks like a squaw.”
- Hair … texture like damp thread —Anthony Powell
- (A mane of black) hair that was as thick as a tow rope —Sumner Locke Elliott
- Hair, thick and coarse as dune grass —Marge Piercy
- Hair thick and glossy like fur —Martin Cruz Smith
- Hair, thick as a cushion —Helen Hudson
- Hair tough as a rocking horse’s —Penelope Gilliatt
- (Her pale red) hair was wispy and stuck out from her head like duckling down —Tama Janowitz
- Her hair, after all the combing, shone like something Marco Polo might have brought back from Far Cathay to show the peasants —William Dieter
- Her locks had been so frequently and drastically brightened and curled that to caress them … would be rather like running one’s fingers through julienne potatoes —Dorothy Parker
- His fine dark hair looked more like a shadow than like real hair —Katherine Mansfield
- Long coarse hair, like a mop —Rosa Guy
- Straight shining hair like smooth straw —James Stern
- Thick, bulging hair, like a bear’s fur —Albert Moravia
Similes Dictionary, 1st Edition. © 1988 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.