curled hair

English

Noun

curled hair (uncountable)

1. The hair of the manes and tails of horses, tails of cattle, and hair of hogs, prepared for use in upholstery.
   • 1888, W.S. Gambell, “Tariff Statements”, in Testimony Taken by the Subcommittee on the Tariff of the Senate Committee on Finance in Connection with the Bill H.R. 9051, page 1146:

     I know that you could present our case to the committee as well as though we all went, and put it in its true light, so that they can not help but see that the proposed taking off of the duty on curled hair would not only be an injury to us as manufacturers, but more so to our workmen, who now, as you know, earn good wages, and at the same time the proposed removal of the duty on curled hair would not benefit them in the least, for as a manufacturer of mattresses I would say that were the price of hair mattresses one-half what they now are, which of course is impossible, it would still be beyond their power and purse to indulge in such luxury even should they earn the same wages as now;

   • 1913, Jacob Hannemann, “Brief of the Hair Spinners' Union No. 10399, Chicago, Ill.”, in United States Congressional Serial Set, volume 6497, page 5376:

     Reports in our local newspapers Tuesday, January 7, 1913, stated that Mr. Charles Delaney, of Philadeplphia, Pa., has been agitating before the Ways and Means Committee to place curled hair on the free list. Mr. Delaney, owner of the curled-hair works in Philadephia, Pa., and Toronto Canada, as well as South America, is able by employing cheap laber to manufacture a cheaper hair, and placing curled hair on the free list would mean an open market for him, thereby seriously ruining the curled-hair business in this country.

   • 1940, United States. Federal Trade Commission, Trade Practice Rules for the Curled Hair Industry as Promulgated January 12, 1940, page 1:

     The purpose of the rules is to protect industry, trade, and the purchasing public from unfair trade practices in respect to curled hair and curled hair mixtures in the several forms and products in which it is used and passed through the channels of distribution and trade to users, re-sellers, and ultimate consumers. The curled hair used in the industry consists, mainly, of horse mane, horse tail, cattle tail and hog hair.

   • 1945, United States. Dept. of the Treasury, Treasury Decisions Under the Customs, Internal Revenue Industrial Alcohol, Narcotic and Other Laws-volume 80, page 14:

     Curled hair is used in the manufacture of mattresses and in upholstering furniture and automobiles.

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see curled,‎ hair.
   • 1912, George Thomas Jackson, A Treatise on diseases of the hair, page 47:

     But artificially curled hair always loses its curl in damp weather.

   • 1976, Walter F. Reineke, First International Congress of Egyptology, page 213:

     In tomb decorations of Dynasty XII at Beni Hasan and at Meir, processional scenes show women with curled hair for the first time, as well as foreigners bearing gifts to the tomb owner and wearing their hair in long flowing curls down to the shoulders.

   • 2017, Style Your Hair:

     Gather your curled hair into a low side ponytail