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A curl so disciplined it looks spontaneous but took forty minutes.
means A small, tightly coiled lock of hair, usually hanging in a spiral.
from From 'ring' plus the diminutive suffix '-let,' meaning literally 'a little ring' — the same pattern that gives us 'piglet' or 'booklet.' The word curls back to Old English 'hring' (ring), and the hair simply borrowed the shape: a loop small enough to call it cute rather than a hoop.
- origin
- diminutive of ring, literally little ring
- victorian favorite
- signature of children and romantic heroines alike
- technique
- formed by wrapping hair around a cylindrical curler
- botanical use
- also describes coiled tendrils on climbing plants