Eugene wave

English

Etymology

Proprietary name.

Noun

Eugene wave (plural Eugene waves)

1. (now historical) A brand of home perm.
   • 1978, Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop, Fourth Estate, published 2014, page 3:

     Florence […] saw herself and her friend, their hair in Eugene waves, chained pencils round their necks, young assistants of twenty-five years ago at Müller's in Wigmore Street.

   • 2002, Charlotte Bingham, The Chestnut Tree:

     'Thanks to your natural curls you will never have to have a Marcel perm or a Eugene wave, think of that.’