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n. (plural of cornrow English)
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Cornrows, braids, or canerows in the Caribbean, are an ancient traditional African hairstyle of hair grooming where the hair is braided very close to the scalp, using an underhand, upward motion to produce a continuous, raised row. Cornrows is also a hairstyle found among different Native American cultures. Cornrows are often formed in simple, straight lines, as the name implies, but they can also be formed in complicated geometric or curvilinear designs.
Often favored for their easy maintenance, rows can be left in for weeks at a time if maintained through careful washing of the hair and regular oiling of the scalp.
Cornrowed hairstyles are sometimes adorned with beads or cowry shells. Depending on the region of the world, cornrows are typically worn by either men or women, or by both.
Usage examples of "cornrows".
Her hair was jet black, cut in square bangs and woven into cornrows above her shoulders.
Her hair was freshly braided into cornrows with pearls and silver beads that jarred musically when she moved, and perfumed with myrrh for a resinous, woodsy smell.
Fashioned of layered cartonnage, the mask bore her face, down to her pouting red lips, insolent dark eyes, and beaded cornrows, or rather, what her face had resembled in life, before the vizars shaved and smeared her.
The statue's hair was braided into cornrows and beads, while Amber's blew like a lion's mane, but both were black topped.
A very young black woman with blonde hair in cornrows stepped around the back of the Jeep.
He looked at the two young women—Tanis with her striking skin contrasting with the bleached cornrows, wearing a white silk sheath and nothing else.
Tanis’s blond cornrows against her dark skin were unmistakable behind the wheel.
The black girl with the blond cornrows, Graesner’s sexy little friend, was sliding back in next to Kelly, holding a steaming cup of coffee.
I could see gravel and fragments of cellophane and plastic in cornrows below the cop’s right shoulder.
The ghetto gold chains were knotted, and the cornrows looked like they’d mopped an arena.
His hair was nearly waist length in cornrows with white beads woven through the braids.
His hair was in cornrows, and the texture was rough and soft at the same time.
The cornrows made it easier to put my face next to the skin of his scalp.
Guinevere, about forty, was exceedingly beautiful, in spite of wearing her long blond hair in medusan cascades of cornrows, which Roy disliked.
Her head flopped forward, chin on her breast, and her cornrows rattled softly, falling like a beaded curtain to conceal her face.