barnet

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English - English
a borough in Greater London
hair (on one's head)
hair or a way of wearing your hair (Barnet fair, rhyming slang for hair, from Barnet, the name of an area of northwest London)
Cockney rhyming slang form of Barnet Fair, meaning hair

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Charlie Barnet
orig. Charles Daly Barnet born Oct. 26, 1913, New York, N.Y., U.S. died Sept., 4, 1991, San Diego, Calif. U.S. saxophonist and big-band leader of the swing era. Born to a wealthy family, Barnet took up the saxophone as a child and eventually performed on tenor, alto, and soprano. His was among the first of the big bands to be racially integrated, and his unabashed admiration for Duke Ellington and Count Basie resulted in an effective synthesis of their styles. His best-known recording was "Cherokee" (1939)