Both Uses of
mane
in
The Fountainhead
- His rich white hair rose over his forehead and fell to his shoulders in the sweep of a medieval mane.†
Chpt 1.10 *mane = long coarse hair on an animal
- He remembered the magnificent voice he had heard in the lobby of the strike meeting, and he imagined a giant of a man, with a rich mane of hair, perhaps just turning gray, with bold, broad features of an ineffable benevolence, something vaguely like the countenance of God the Father.†
Chpt 2.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(mane) long coarse hair such as that which grows around a lion's head or on the back of a horse's neck
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, mane can refer to long coarse hair on another animal; or even to a person's hair.