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

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

From Andersen's Fairy Tales by Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)

"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)

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 Farnol, Jeffery

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

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