calamistrate

English

Etymology

From Latin calamistratus.

Verb

calamistrate (third-person singular simple present calamistrates, present participle calamistrating, simple past and past participle calamistrated)

  1. (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 […].

Anagrams

Latin

Adjective

calamistrāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of calamistrātus
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