calamistrate
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin calamistratus.
Verb
[edit]calamistrate (third-person singular simple present calamistrates, present participle calamistrating, simple past and past participle calamistrated)
- (obsolete, rare) To curl (the hair).
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition III, section 2, member 2, subsection ii:
- Which belike makes our Venetian ladies at this day to counterfeit yellow hair so much, great women to calamistrate and curl it up […], to adorn their heads with spangles, pearls, and made flowers […].
Anagrams
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]calamistrāte