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Word: curl (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1880
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...Curl, frizz, and braid, and bang thy hair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PARAPHRASE FROM HORACE. | 11/26/1880 | See Source »

...change in the cuisine has taken place, and I am afraid that these lines were not read in the right spirit by her to whom they were addressed; perhaps she never got them, - perhaps she used them for curl-papers, - perhaps (oh, bitter thought!) she cannot read...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO THE HEAD COOK. | 2/20/1880 | See Source »

When we make a brilliant recitation we squirt, or, more commonly, rush. With us this "consummation devoutly to be wished" is the result of grinding or digging. At Williams they grub and make a high-ti.* At the University of Virginia, curl was their synonym for this successful ending of work. At Princeton grinding is called poling, from the verb to pole...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SLANGOGRAPHY. | 1/23/1880 | See Source »

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