Sentence:  At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish , but - the driver 's white teeth flashing at me , the road wildly veering beyond his glistening <WSD>hair</WSD> , beyond his gesticulating bottle - it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; I would n't have known the difference . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss