nape
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Boys' hair could not cover the nape of their necks, while girls with long hair had to tie it up.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2025
Her long tresses are twisted in an easy crown, flowing from the crest of her forehead to the nape of her neck and signaling her noble status.
From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2024
Going forward, restorers plan to make fresh casts out of resin to replace the plaster patches that covered missing pieces, including on part of the nape of the neck and the pubis.
From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2023
As Jessica Eldridge skies for a resounding block, gravity suspends her pink-tinted hair for just a moment, revealing a “7” tattooed on her nape.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2022
Then he reached in and briefly touched the nape of the boy’s neck, where the hair was soft.
From "The Fighting Ground" by Avi
Their napes are festooned with triangular plumage as consistent as the teeth of a comb.
From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2021
Dr. Sano grafted skin on rats' chests or the napes of their necks, the areas that move the most.
From Time Magazine Archive
They parted it from their foreheads to the napes of their necks and then they parted it across from ear to ear.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Most of the stevedores were hatless, and Chris snickered at the sight of the short braid of hair at the napes of their necks.
From Mr. Wicker's Window by Lynd Ward
The men threw back their black silk hats, the flowers in the women's bonnets glided to the napes of their necks.
From His Masterpiece by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
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