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ˈupswept, a.
Also (older) upˈswept.
[up- 5 (b).]
1. Swept up.
1791Cowper Iliad xi. 375 The foam Upswept by wand'ring gusts fills all the air.
2. Applied to (a style of) hair brushed up and fastened at the top of the head; = swept-up s.v. swept ppl. a. 1.
1938Vogue 15 June 34 Those toy-size doll hats..on many French heads already—and what a fine solution they are to up-swept hair. 1939M. B. Picken Lang. Fashion 160/3 Up-swept, term applied to style of hairdress with smooth, high-swept back and small curls on top of head. 1946‘P. Quentin’ Puzzle for Fiends (1947) xvii. 119 Her rakish upswept hair-do. 1959News Chron. 12 Aug. 3/6 Two oval faces, with smooth up-swept hair. 1976J. Grenfell Joyce Grenfell requests Pleasure xiii. 182 Lynn showed me how to achieve a fold at the back of my up-swept hair. 1981A. Lurie Lang. Clothes iii. 72/1 Her upswept hairdo, puffed out over pads of wire and horsehair.
3. More generally, having an upward sweep, curved upwards.
1960News Chron. 16 Sept. 1/7 The woman the police are seeking..wears glasses with blue upswept frames. 1961Shropshire Mag. Apr. 43/1 (Advt.), New spectacle frames... Two-tone 17/–; Upswept 20/–. 1961Webster s.v., Upswept rear fenders. 1984Washington Post 9 July c7/1 There he is, with his striped pantaloons and upswept conquistador hat. |