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Examples

  • From possessing many and the prettiest "marcelle" waves to making a real success as managing editor of the Carolinian.

    Pine Needles, 1921. No Author 1921

  • June 1, 2009 at 12:01 pm marcelle mar sew kitteh doing mime inna box

    Invisible . . . - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • A tommyhawk for me and no mop to _marcelle_ if I try to revolutionize

    Letters of a Dakota Divorcee Jane Burr

  • I feel like organizing a class to show them how to _marcelle_ their mops and "straight front" their stomachs.

    Letters of a Dakota Divorcee Jane Burr

  • "Except once," put in Katherine, and everybody shrieked with laughter at the recollection of Babe's one disastrous experience with a marcelle wave.

    Betty Wales Senior Margaret Warde

  • To be able to make 1's on every subject and still maintain a marcelle wave, a spotless countenance, a waist and skirt that live in undivided harmony, and a pair of glazed-finished shoes necessitates an unusual girl.

    Pine Needles, 1921. No Author 1921

  • It had been an imposing house in its time but now it was given over to doctors 'offices and studios, while a male hair-dresser in the basement transformed the straight locks of fashionable ladies into a wonderful marcelle.

    The Man from the Bitter Roots Caroline Lockhart 1916

  • Now you'd almost think I'd seen too many lady typists earnin 'their daily bread and their weekly marcelle waves for me to get stirred up over anything they might do.

    Torchy and Vee Sewell Ford 1907

  • Her white hair was brushed up from her forehead in a smooth, cloudy fashion that had in it no more than a hint of marcelle waving.

    The Lookout Man B. M. Bower 1905

  • I have read of a heroine who passed successfully as her own twin sister by the simple device of plainly brushed hair and puritanical garments, the sister, of course, sporting marcelle waves and Parisian costumes.

    The Lady of the Basement Flat George de Horne Vaizey 1887

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