Czasownik
To hold the hair and comb it towards the head, thus giving it a bushier look.
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Her dark-blonde hair, worn long at Oxford, had been cut and backcombed, Diana-style, and quivered when she shook her head.
Rzeczownik
The hairstyle produced by backcombing.
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You and your fit friends anyway / I'd take them all out any day / They all got backcombs anyway
A decorative comb worn as an ornament and to secure a hairstyle.
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There was a part of a bottle of liquor on the table—the furniture of the hall was disarranged—a pair of slippers, two small combs, and a backcomb were lying near an easy chair.
A backcomb comprising a pair of oppositely disposed members of sheet material each provided with teeth along one margin, a pivot pin securing the members at one end in overlapping relation.
Her father had produced a pink crêpe de Chine blouse and a backcomb massed with brilliants—both of which she refused to wear.