2. Noun. specifically, a body of curly hair on someone's head ¹
3. Verb. (third-person singular of curl) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Curls
1. curl [v] - See also: curl
Lexicographical Neighbors of Curls
Literary usage of Curls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Parodies of the Works of English & American Authors by Walter Hamilton (1887)
"curls, that I might roll them In paper coils at night ; curls that I might ...
curls, that I might sever For my own lover true ; curls, perhaps to give one, ..."
2. The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain (2001)
"He bent over the boy and contemplated him with kind and pitying interest, tapping
the young cheek tenderly and smoothing back the tangled curls with his ..."
3. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (2000)
"The same slender figure, the same tight curls, the same springy step, the same
alertness, the same decision of eye and answering decision of hand, ..."
4. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... 510 Far-out the wave is crested, but anon Breaks, thundering on the coast,
and over-arch'd curls round the headlands, flinging far the foam ; Legion on ..."
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