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mosquito wig
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a kind of cap having a long fringe of musk-ox hair, used as protection against mosquitoes, etc.
See: mosquito fan
Quotations
1795
Hearne . . . says the long hair used for these "musketto wigs" came from the throat and breast [of the musk-ox] where it "hangs down like a horse's mane inverted."
1832
Their [musk-oxen's] hair is very long . . . and . . . of this . . . the Esquimaux make their mosquito wigs.