Timeline for Why doesn't English have a separate word for "head hair"? (head hair vs. body hair)
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| Jul 1, 2014 at 15:11 | comment | added | Sven Yargs | I encountered chevelure for the first time less than a week ago, in researching the question Why is unexpectedly common but expectedly not?. As I noted in a comment there, English speakers are far more familiar with another word that has the same root as chevelure: disheveled. | |
| Jun 10, 2014 at 2:55 | comment | added | Third News | @ermanen, I was just thinking about this, I used the term often as a child but I was raised bilingually, and that may be a factor | |
| Jun 10, 2014 at 2:51 | comment | added | ermanen | Holy mackerel! A new word that I have never seen before. Is there a current usage? I can see that it is used in some English sources from 1800's so it seems like obsolete. But it is hard to find English sources because of the results in French. | |
| Jun 10, 2014 at 2:43 | history | answered | Third News | CC BY-SA 3.0 |