A roller or clasp around which a lock of hair is wrapped to curl it.
Mother was particularly memorable in her pink night gown and hair curlers
Example sentencesExamples
- When I was growing up, it was considered a mortal sin to be seen out in public wearing hair curlers.
- Another much-told tale features the teaching assistant arriving in class wearing pink hair curlers.
- Cartoons were once populated by henpecked husbands and conniving wives in hair curlers.
- On her next visit, she had her electric hair curlers.
- As far as we know, the moustache curler was used in a similar way as a modern hair curler.
- Inside the hair curlers were 13 live finches.
- Do people still buy corn plasters and hair curlers?
- Her hair curlers litter the sand like strange sea creatures.
- Using old hair curlers, she found a way to keep the squirrels away.
- I use empty toilet paper rollers as hair curlers.