calamistrate
English
Etymology
From Latin calamistratus.
Verb
calamistrate (third-person singular simple present calamistrates, present participle calamistrating, simple past and past participle calamistrated)
- (obsolete, rare) To curl (the hair).
- 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, partition III, section 2, member 2, subsection 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 […].
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Anagrams
- citramalates
Latin
Adjective
calamistrāte
- vocative masculine singular of calamistrātus