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Maid's hair   Listen
noun
Maid's hair  n.  (Bot.) The yellow bedstraw (Galium verum).






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... sent her to be converted by her godmother, the Madame de Neuillant above mentioned. This woman, who was as merciless as a woman can be, literally broke her into Romanism, treated her like a servant, made her groom the horses, and comb the maid's hair, and when all these efforts failed, sent her to a convent to be finished off. The nuns did by specious reasoning what had been begun by persecution, and young Francoise, at the time she was introduced to Scarron, was a highly respectable member ...
— The Wits and Beaux of Society - Volume 1 • Grace Wharton and Philip Wharton



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