hair-comb
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It is a small aluminum instrument, about five inches long, into the mouth of which one hums the tune, with a result rather like the sound of humming through a paper-covered hair-comb.
From Time Magazine Archive
That the whole should be wrenched away and sold at so much 'the comb'—as though it were a hair-comb.
From English Poems by Richard Le Gallienne
Ve got 'em up to veefty dollars—" "Come off it, Cain, come off—I ain't purchasin' a diamond aigrette to-day, it's a lady's hair-comb I want—good, but not too flossy-lookin'—savvy that?
From The Definite Object A Romance of New York by Jeffery Farnol
And I got a new hair-comb, with genuine Peruvian diamonds.
From Free Air by Sinclair Lewis
Mrs. Tanner bustled in with the coffee-pot, and Mr. Tanner came last, having just finished his rather elaborate hair-comb at the kitchen glass with the kitchen comb, in full view of the assembled multitude.
From A Voice in the Wilderness by Grace Livingston Hill
