balliage
n.— « Balliage: A technique in which color is painted freehand onto sections of hair.» —“Tackling a lust for red head-on” by Elizabeth Lenhard Atlanta Constitution (Georgia) Apr. 23, 1995. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Megan from Savannah, Georgia, is curious about a phrase her father used: down cellar behind the axe, a phrase whose meaning she never quite understood. Down cellar, meaning “down in the cellar,” is common in New England and the Canadian Maritimes...
A Navy veteran recalls hearing the Southern expression fat lighter from his wife’s family in Troy, Alabama. It denotes an old, resin-rich pine wood that becomes highly flammable as it ages. Fat lighter is prized as kindling and often called fat...