ABSTRACT
A hait dresser, and she combs (or dresses the hair of) her daughter.
This is said of good work, such as is executed by skilful artists when they work" con amore." among the peasants signifies «a woman who earns her livelihood by combing and cleaning the long thick hair of the female villagers, which she afterwards plaits," an operation to which all the respectable Turkish women submit at least once in every week. This business is performed in towns at the baths by professional women called
A pretty girl, but too poor to obtain a husband. comprises the whole furniture-beds, SO£'lS,
kitchen utensils, china-ware, &c. which a wife brings to her hUl5band, amounting often to a greater value than the price paid for the girl to her father. She retains, however, the property of this furniture, unless she demands a divorce, when the husband may claim it on her leaving his h0\188.
