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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of marcel.

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Examples

  • But her blonde hair was freshly "marcelled," and her nails pink and shining.

    Vera, the Medium Richard Harding Davis 1890

  • 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

  • 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

  • I even remember her hairdo, short and marcelled with a little brown cloche on top.

    Now I Know Why Mama Cried 2009

  • 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.

    Centenaries, Centenaries! They Pleasure Me! 2007

  • 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

  • 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.

    VAMPIRE BLOG-A-THON: Six Short Bites 2006

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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