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Shampoo
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a word now principally used as a hair-dresser's term for washing the head and hair with soap and water or some special preparation. It is properly the Hindustani word (champna, to thrust, press; imperative champo) for the kneading and rubbing of the body, &c., which is one of the principal features of the various forms of hot bath as practised in the East.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Shampoo'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/s/shampoo.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Shampoo'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/s/shampoo.html. 1910.
