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   shingle

   /ˈʃɪŋɡl/

   noun

   • 1. a rectangular wooden tile used on walls or roofs.
   • 2. a woman's short haircut in which the hair tapers from the back of the head to the nape of the neck. dated
   • 3. a small signboard, especially one found outside a doctor's or lawyer's office. North American

   verb

   • 1. roof or clad with shingles: "yesterday we fastened in the steel framework and shingled the roof"
   • 2. cut (a woman's hair) in a shingle: dated "women began to bob their hair immediately after the war and were shingling it by 1925"

   Word Origin Middle English (as a noun): apparently from Latin scindula, earlier scandula ‘a split piece of wood’.

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