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Curliness

noun
1.
(of hair) a tendency to curl.  Synonym: waviness.






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"Curliness" Quotes from Famous Books



... found to be analyzable into unit-characters (that is, traits hereditarily transmitted as units), such as "curliness of hair," "blue eyes," and the like. Mental traits, however, do not seem analyzable into the fixed unit-characters prescribed by the ...
— Human Traits and their Social Significance • Irwin Edman

... some very particular sort of curliness in her hair too," said Sissy. "Don't you think ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 • Various

... been found to be analyzable into unit-characters (that is, traits hereditarily transmitted as units), such as "curliness of hair," "blue eyes," and the like. Mental traits, however, do not seem analyzable into the fixed unit-characters prescribed by the ...
— Human Traits and their Social Significance • Irwin Edman

... hour before her mirror, trying to coax her bobbed curls into a knot like Nina Edmonds'. Rosemary's hair was growing very fast and she had promised Doctor Hugh not to have it cut again. Just now it was an awkward length, but its curliness redeemed even that. Nina's straight blond locks were strained into a tortuous knot at the nape of her neck, for she, too, had decided not to bob her hair again. It was the absence of hair-ribbon that particularly appealed to Rosemary, ...
— Rosemary • Josephine Lawrence

... recovering her breath—her bosom rising and falling quickly under her dark gown, a pink flush in her cheeks. Her hair, fair and inclined to curliness, had escaped bounds a little, and she brushed ...
— The Survivor • E.Phillips Oppenheim



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