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Hair style peculiarly English (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

shingle

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'hair style' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
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'peculiarly english' is the wordplay.
'peculiarly' indicates anagramming the letters.
'english' with letters rearranged gives 'SHINGLE'.

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(Other definitions for shingle that I've seen before include "Coarse gravel (on beach)" , "Gravelly composition" , "English (anag)" , "Small beach pebbles" , "Seashore gravel" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish News.
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