Hair

Hair

Hair is a filamentous biomaterial, that grows from follicles found in the dermis. Hair is one of the defining characteristics of mammals.

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Famous quotes containing the word hair:

    “He was begotten in the galley and born under a gun. Every hair was a rope yarn, every finger a fish-hook, every tooth a marline-spike, and his blood right good Stockholm tar.”
    —Naval epitaph.

    “Passing away, saith the World, passing away:
    Chances, beauty and youth sapped day by day:
    Thy life never continueth in one stay.
    Is the eye waxen dim, is the dark hair changing to gray
    That hath won neither laurel nor bay?”
    —Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)

    “Laurent, lock up my hair shirt and lacerating whip.”
    —Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673)