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woman's head
see tête-de-femme
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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See niggerhead (def. 2a) 1898 quote.
Quotations
1823
This, and the other species of Dicrana, form dense tufts on the Barren Grounds, that are very troublesome to pedestrians, and obtain from the Indians the name of women's heads, because, they say, when you kick them they do not get out of the way.
1836
Our way lay through swamps, covered with what the Indians call women's heads, which are round hummocks of moss-covered earth. . . .
1852
. . . the hassocks . . . bear, among the Chepewyan tribes, the name of "women's heads," and render the footing of pedestrians insecure and dangerous.