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Noun- Head of hair; A nebulous envelope (as around the nucleus of a comet or of a nebulous star).

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  • His chevelure was like that which I see in a picture of the grand
  • On the top of her head was gathered, and made into a knot, her chevelure, black as lacquer, and glossy like pomade.
  • A Hemisphere in Your Hair French: Un hémisphère dans une chevelure is a poem by Baudelaire collected in Paris Spleen.
  • Her kneecaps were not fractured, but two hairpins became detached from her chevelure while she was performing a protracted pirouette.
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