zazzera

I want, you to give me an extra touch of your art -- not on my chin, no; but on the zazzera, which is as tangled as your Florentine politics.

Romola George Eliot 1849

The head, which is low and flat above the forehead, rising swiftly backward from the crown, carries a thick bushy shock of hair curling at the ends, such as the Italians call a _zazzera_.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series John Addington Symonds 1866

A black broad-brimmed hat was thrown back upon his matted _zazzera_ of dark hair tipped with dusky brown.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866

The head, which is low and flat above the forehead, rising swiftly backward from the crown, carries a thick bushy shock of hair curling at the ends, such as the Italians call a _zazzera_.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866

A black broad-brimmed hat was thrown back upon his matted _zazzera_ of dark hair tipped with dusky brown.

New Italian sketches John Addington Symonds 1866

A black broad-brimmed hat was thrown back upon his matted _zazzera_ of dark hair tipped with dusky brown.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series John Addington Symonds 1866

Madonna Romola with a rusty chin and a tangled _zazzera_.

Romola George Eliot 1849

_bella zazzera_ -- the hyacinthine locks, you do not choose to part with; and there is no need.

Romola George Eliot 1849

I shall have to dress the zazzera for the betrothal before long -- is it not true? "

Romola George Eliot 1849