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'red-head scarf' certainly isn't an acceptable use of a hyphen, unless the scarf is woven from the hair of a red-haired person.


I read that as "A scarf that red haired people wear"


That would be a legitimate way to parse that phrase, but it's far more likely that this is a typo for "red head-scarf". There isn't a particular kind of scarf worn by red-heads, AFIAK.


Admittedly, I thought of the sexual double-entendre. Muff can make a nice scarf...

But I digress.




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