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)
"The woman who left this hair-comb behind knows something about the affair evidently," exclaimed the inspector.
From The Sign of Silence by Le Queux, William
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
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
