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

And I got a new hair-comb, with genuine Peruvian diamonds.

From Free Air by Lewis, Sinclair

"Did it ruffle his pretty hair, then!" she cried; and, with her hair-comb, she combed him straight.

From Sons and Lovers by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

I had both a bootjack and a hair-comb, which I never used!

From A Christmas Greeting by Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)

At the end of the play a gold hair-comb was handed to me, on which were engraved the names of a great number of persons present.

From My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt by Bernhardt, Sarah