Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To curl or frizzle, as the hair.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To curl or friz, as the hair.
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Examples
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Which belike makes our Venetian ladies at this day to counterfeit yellow hair so much, great women to calamistrate and curl it up, vibrantes ad gratiam crines, et tot orbibus in captivitatem flexos, to adorn their heads with spangles, pearls, and made-flowers; and all courtiers to effect a pleasing grace in this kind.
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Quisnam istuc adcredat tibi, cinaede calamistrate? tun verberes, qui pro cibo habeas te verberari?
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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v., to curl the hair (from Latin calamistratus 'curled')
July 7, 2008