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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
becurl .
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Examples
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Walking, for instance: simply strolling from one room to another must be done in concert with two pages becurled and beribboned: one six steps in front, one behind, carrying my train.
The Last Great Dance on Earth Sandra Gulland 2001
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Walking, for instance: simply strolling from one room to another must be done in concert with two pages becurled and beribboned: one six steps in front, one behind, carrying my train.
The Last Great Dance on Earth Sandra Gulland 2001
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And Glutz's little beribboned, becurled figure on a stool.
Brigands of the Moon Ray Cummings 1922
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To thy vain employments, thou becurled and pomaded Absalom!
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Bates could have endured six more prim, angular, becurled daughters-in-law, very well indeed, for land was his one and only
A Daughter of the Land Gene Stratton-Porter 1893
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But in spite of these barriers Dora well remembered a slim, long-armed schoolgirl, much dressed and becurled, who once in
The History of David Grieve Humphry Ward 1885
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Louisa looked very stylish in a large mauve-colored felt hat, and a fur boa round her neck; her black hair was much befrizzed and becurled.
Good Luck L. T. Meade 1884
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So natural to these Africans was the supernatural that I could be one of the men who plucked Lot from Sodom and yet a becurled widow.
The Flower of the Chapdelaines George Washington Cable 1884
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On Sundays the roads and fields were gay with these respectable Yankee maidens, becurled and beribboned, philandering with their sweethearts or in bevies visiting each other's houses.
Confessions of Boyhood John Albee 1874
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To thy vain employments, thou becurled and pomaded Absalom!
The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac Eugene Field 1872
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