ˈcurling-iron
[curling vbl. n.1]
An iron instrument for curling the hair, which is heated and the hair then twined round it.
| 1632 Sherwood Eng.-Fr. Dict., A curling iron, fer à frisotter. 1752 Richardson Let. in Mrs. Barbauld Life (1804) III. 34 That careless girl..set herself in a blaze with her torturing curling irons. 1844 Dickens Mart. Chuz. xxxviii, A small fire for the convenience of heating curling-irons. |