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Definition of Marcel
1. Verb. Make a marcel in a woman's hair. "They marcel their hair "
2. Noun. A hairdo characterized by deep regular waves that are made by a heated curling iron.
Definition of Marcel
1. Proper noun. (French male given name) occasionally borrowed from French. ¹
2. Noun. A hairstyle characterized by deep waves made by a curling iron. ¹
3. Noun. A marcel wave. ¹
4. Verb. (transitive) To wave hair by the marcel method. ¹
5. Verb. (transitive) (figuratively) To wave; as, ''marcelled potato crisps''. ¹
6. Adjective. Of, producing, or related to marcel waves. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Marcel
1. to make a deep, soft wave in the hair [v -CELLED, -CELLING, -CELS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Marcel
Literary usage of Marcel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Music and Musicians by Louis Charles Elson (1918)
"marcel turns pale, while his friends, make fun of the fantastic couple, ...
She at once begins to make overtures to marcel, who feigns utter indifference. ..."
2. A History of France by George William Kitchin (1899)
"NNE marcel AND THE BOURGEOISIE OF PARIS. AD 1356-1360. The four years from
Poitiers (AD 1356) to the peace of Bre- tigny (AD 1360), years of disaster, ..."
3. The Anglo-Saxon Review by Randolph Spencer Churchill (1901)
"I hope you will both have a long life and much happiness. marcel. ... marcel.
Well, if there wasn't war, what would an old soldier like me do ? ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1903)
"... et marcel Se"e. (La Pratique Dermatologique. Tome in.) Paris: Masson, 1902.
8. Behandlung der Lepra. Von HP Lie. (Handbuch der Therapie innerer ..."
5. Zeitschrift Für Kristallographie, Kristallgeometrie, Kristallphysik (1907)
"... (in Turin]: Kristallisierter Rhodonit von St. marcel ... Der Rhodonit der
bekannten Gruben von St. marcel war bis jetzt nicht als ..."
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