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Dutch-cut Hist.

• n. a style of haircut such that the hair, combed straight back, is bobbed on a level with the ear lobes.

  • 1922  [I escorted Pauline Augusta to Hunk Granby, the town barber, to have her hair cut Dutch.]
  • 1954  The men wore their hair in what was known as the "Dutch cut."
  • 1958  Though he was in his seventies, his hair was still jet black, and he wore it combed straight back and cut in the original Ojibway fashion, bobbed just below his ears--Dutch­-cut they used to call it.