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#1 Thorvald_Grimbjorn Oct 20, 2011 12:59:11	What's a "pluck-haired" person? How does that look like? Is it the same as having a shaved head?
#2 jetshield Oct 20, 2011 13:18:06	I've never heard the term, but it could refer to peope who suffer from trichotillomania. Trichotillomania is a disorder that cuses people to pull their own hairs out. Sufferers tend to focus on hairs in specific areas or the body. Some pull hairs from their scalp, leaving bald patches. Others pull out their eyelashes, or eyebrows, or facial hair (I know a guy that has to shave 2-3 times a day to keep from pulling his beard out one hair at a time), or arm hair, chest, leg, etc.
#3 Thorvald_Grimbjorn Oct 20, 2011 19:57:10	For additional context, it's from the book "Hotel on the Corner of a Bitter and Sweet". "A girl, probably in the same grade, about his height, hidden behind long bangs and the black strands of hair that framed her face. She sprayed the trays with hot steaming water and put them in a dish rack, one by one. As she slowly turned towards Henry, he noticed her slender cheekbones, her perfect skin, smooth and lacking in the freckles that mottled the other girls' faces at the normally all-white school. But most of all, he noticed her soft chestnut-brown eyes. (...) The pluck-haired girl whispered, 'I'm Keiko.'"
#4 Thorvald_Grimbjorn Oct 20, 2011 22:19:44	Yep. Can't find anything. I'm almost inclined to believe it's a typo. :-(