Eugene wave

noun

A brand of home perm.

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Meanings

nounEugene wave (plural Eugene waves)

plural Eugene waves

  1. historicalA brand of home perm.

    'Thanks to your natural curls you will never have to have a Marcel perm or a Eugene wave, think of that.’

    2002, Charlotte Bingham, The Chestnut Tree
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    Florence […] saw herself and her friend, their hair in Eugene waves, chained pencils round their necks, young assistants of twenty-five years ago at Müller's in Wigmore Street.

    1978, Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop, Fourth Estate, published 2014, page 3

Origin

Proprietary name.

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Eugene wave. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Eugene%20wave

MLA

“Eugene wave.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Eugene%20wave. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Eugene wave,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Eugene%20wave.

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