hair-powder
A scented powder made of fine flour or starch, used in the 18th c. for sprinkling the hair or wig in hairdressing.
| 1663 Wood Life (O.H.S.) I. 475 To my barber for haire powder, 6d. 1800 Herschel in Phil. Trans. XC. 444, I examined the focus of light, by throwing hair-powder, with a puff, into the air. 1864–5 Knight Passages Work. Life I. 220 Hair-powder had altogether gone out. |