shoulder-length

adjective

of a person's hair
: reaching the shoulders

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The actress added drop earrings and wore her shoulder-length hair in soft waves. Catherine Santino, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025 With his shoulder-length hair tucked under his signature trucker hat and a glass of wine in hand, Henegan works the room, stopping at every other table to give a hug or tell a story about his days rubbing elbows with celebrities or splitting martinis and oysters at the bar with his pet pig. Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 1 Sep. 2025 Rubinstein Deyerin has shoulder-length salt-and-pepper hair. Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025 The only variable that was manipulated was the Black woman’s hairstyle and included four different hairstyles: straight shoulder-length hair, a big afro, a teeny-weeny afro (TWA), and braids. Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for shoulder-length

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“Shoulder-length.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shoulder-length. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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