calamistrate
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin calamistratus.
Verb
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- (obsolete, rare) To curl (the hair).
- 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition III, section 2, member 2, subsection ii:
- Which belike makes our Venetian ladies at this day to counterfeit yellow hair so much, great women to calamistrate and curl it up […], to adorn their heads with spangles, pearls, and made flowers […].
Anagrams
Latin
Adjective
(deprecated template usage) calamistrāte