English

Noun

hair-tidy ‎(plural hair-tidies)

1. a dish used by woman in the past to store the hair that fell while combing, and use it later for a bun, etc.
   • 1918 : The fireplace was choked up with rubbish. She poked among it but found nothing except a hair-tidy with a heart painted on it that belonged to the servant girl. - Katherine Mansfield, Prelude (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 81)