ˈcurl-paper
A piece of soft paper with which the hair is twisted up for some time, so as to give it a curl when the paper is taken out.
| a 1817 Anna Lefroy in Jane Austen Volume the Third (1951) 130 In the Dressing room..he had the..satisfaction of picking up a curl paper. 1826 Moore Amatory Colloquy in Morn. Chron., Those soft billet-doux..Will serve but to keep Mrs. Coutts in curl-papers. 1852 Dickens Bleak Ho. xxii, With her head in a perfect beehive of curl-papers and nightcap. 1924 C. Mackenzie Old Men of Sea xix. 325 Ciggyrettes! Oh dear!.. I did once have a try at chewing ciggyrettes, but I reckon I might as well have started in chewing curl-papers. 1966 ― Paper Lives xv. 203 ‘Do any women still put their hair in curl-papers? I thought they used these metallic things.’.. ‘I recall..seeing our housemaid with her hair covered in curl-papers.’ |
Hence ˈcurl-papered a., having the hair in curl-papers.
| 1867 Bk. Humorous Poetry 324 Wife curl-paper'd, slipshod, unwash'd and undress'd. |