frisuren.
Mode or fashion of curling the hair.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > [noun] > curling or frizzing
frouncing1530
frizilation1567
frizzling1592
calamistration1621
frizzing1696
buckling1713
frisure1755
papering1777
crêping1889
water waving1901
piping1907
permanent waving1917
marcelling1926
finger waving1928
body wave1955
1755 London Mag. July 343 Let an artificial flow'r Set the frisure off before.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 202 She was most remarkable for the frisure of her head.
1773 R. Graves Spiritual Quixote I. v. vii. 285 Though it had not received the fashionable frizure, it was grown..long enough to curl.
1817 Combe's Devil upon Two Sticks (ed. 5) IV. xvii. 23 The immense expanding frisure of 1780.
1927 Daily Express 4 Oct. 9/6 Other resolutions declared that bobbed and shingled heads should have a higher frisure than formerly.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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