frizette

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English

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Etymology

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From French frisette (curl).

Noun

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frizette (plural frizettes)

  1. A fringe of hair or curls around a woman's forehead.
  2. (historical) A pad of frizzed hair or silk formerly worn by women under the hair to stuff it out.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for frizette”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)