hair-comb

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It is a small aluminum instrument, about five inches long, into the mouth of which one hums the tune, with a result rather like the sound of humming through a paper-covered hair-comb.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ve got 'em up to veefty dollars—" "Come off it, Cain, come off—I ain't purchasin' a diamond aigrette to-day, it's a lady's hair-comb I want—good, but not too flossy-lookin'—savvy that?

From The Definite Object A Romance of New York by Farnol, Jeffery

"Did it ruffle his pretty hair, then!" she cried; and, with her hair-comb, she combed him straight.

From Sons and Lovers by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

I was struck with her profusion of jewels, mostly topazes, but also many carbuncles and garnets; rings, bracelets, a necklace, a hair-comb and many big-headed hair pins.

From Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire by White, Edward Lucas

And I got a new hair-comb, with genuine Peruvian diamonds.

From Free Air by Lewis, Sinclair