capillature

English

Etymology

Latin capillatura.

Noun

capillature (uncountable)

1. A bush of hair; frizzing of the hair.
   • 1877, John Whitford, Trading Life in Western and Central Africa:

     The barbers afterwards rub Shea butter well over those billiard-ball bald heads, and presently the unseen forest springs up, and heavy crops of capillature result.

References

• “capillature”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.