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Calamistrate
CALAMISTRATE
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calamistrate
calamistrate
English
Verb
calamistrate (third-person singular simple present calamistrates, present participle calamistrating, simple past and past participle calamistrated)
- (obsolete, rare) To curl (the hair).
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, III.2.2.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 […].
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, III.2.2.ii: