hair-tidy

Noun

 * 1)  A dish used by women in the past to store the hair that fell while combing, and use it later for a bun, etc.
 * 2) * 1918 : The fireplace was choked up with rubbish. She poked among it but found nothing except a hair-tidy with a heart painted on it that belonged to the servant girl. - Katherine Mansfield, Prelude (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 81)