Calamistrate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Calamistrate is a verb meaning (obsolete, rare) To curl (the hair).
Meaning
(obsolete, rare) To curl (the hair).
Example Sentences
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 […].
Word Forms
- calamistrates
- calamistrating
- calamistrated
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include currycomb, cacuminate, curl, curry-comb, courb, conk.
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