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The ritual of scraping stubble off your face with a sharpened piece of metal, daily, on purpose.
means The act of cutting hair close to the skin with a blade, usually from the face, legs, or scalp.
from From Old English 'sceafan,' meaning to scrape or shave, part of a big Germanic family of words built around scraping and cutting — related to 'shave,' 'shovel,' and 'scabbard' all trace back to the same ancient root for scraping or carving something away. The verb has meant removing hair with a blade since Old English times; the deeper root likely connects to an even older Indo-European word for cutting or splitting.
- ancient practice
- Egyptians shaved with sharpened flint 30,000 years ago
- safety razor
- Invented 1901 so men stopped bleeding daily
- Alexander the Great
- Made soldiers shave so enemies could not grab beards
- hair regrowth myth
- Shaving never makes hair grow back thicker