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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
marcel .
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Examples
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But her blonde hair was freshly "marcelled," and her nails pink and shining.
Vera, the Medium Richard Harding Davis 1890
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Mr. Fitzgerald's hair is impeccably marcelled, while Mrs. Fitzgerald's psyche is so tangled that Gil gives her a Valium.
We'll Always Have Allen's 'Paris' Joe Morgenstern 2011
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We'd met one of Bedie's sons as he held court with impeccable manners and marcelled hair from a corner table at Abidjan's hottest club, 37°2.
Joe Merlino: Christmas Coup Countdown - Cote D'Ivoire 1999 on the Eve of Collapse 2009
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I even remember her hairdo, short and marcelled with a little brown cloche on top.
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I am bringing you all the evidence, based only on the secret testimony of the marcelled-hair soul who was launched that day on a life of prophecy and prediction.
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I am bringing you all the evidence, based only on the secret testimony of the marcelled-hair soul who was launched that day on a life of prophecy and prediction.
Archive 2007-08-12 2007
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It's not her marcelled hair or her silver lamé dress, but her voice -- the voice that said "It can't be" in that intoxicating loop in Joseph Losey's ACCIDENT -- and her verbal powers of persuasion; I can well understand the way she works John Karlen to a lather with her descriptions of her "ancestor's" tortures.
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It's not her marcelled hair or her silver lamé dress, but her voice -- the voice that said "It can't be" in that intoxicating loop in Joseph Losey's ACCIDENT -- and her verbal powers of persuasion; I can well understand the way she works John Karlen to a lather with her descriptions of her "ancestor's" tortures.
Archive 2006-10-29 2006
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One of the wives, a marcelled blonde in a fox stole, yawned and spat a wad of gum into the pool, setting off a tussle among the goldfish.
December 6 Smith, Martin Cruz 2002
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Though her hair was marcelled midnight, skin tawny, lips full, she was of white race, hazel-eyed, straight-nosed, wide across the cheekbones.
The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989
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