Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A little frizz or curl of hair; a band of frizzled hair, either natural or false, worn above the forehead; a bang.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A curl of hair or silk; a pad of frizzed hair or silk worn by women under the hair to stuff it out.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
curl ofhair orsilk . - noun A
pad offrizzed hair or silk formerly worn bywomen under the hair to stuff it out.
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word frizette.
Examples
-
As a strow will shaw she does the wind blague, recting to show the rudess of a robur curling and shewing the fansaties of a frizette.
Finnegans Wake 2006
-
(I had brought along a tin of Euthymol tooth powder, a packet of frizette mixture, a jar of red currant jelly, a box of liquorice allsorts, a comb, and two tins of Portuguese sardines.)
A Rude Awakening Aldiss, Brian 1978
-
Oroveso to the Druidical chorus, was a muscular spinster, fierce and forty, sporting steel spectacles, a frizette of the most scrupulous honesty, and a towering comb which formed what the landscape-gardeners call "an object" in the distance.
-
This attractive peculiarity was more apparent than ever to-day, the frizette having been caught by a bough in the woods.
Bluebell A Novel Mrs. George Croft Huddleston
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.