[f. BACK a. + HEAD.] a. False hair worn at the back of the head; chignon. b. Back part of the head.

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1731.  Gentl. Mag., I. 531. Dresses youthfully, wears back-heads.

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1754.  Richardson, Grandison, vii. 223 (D.). Her pale pink lustring and back-head.

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1836.  A. Walker, Beauty Wom., 381. If the forehead be not large in proportion to the backhead.

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