calamistrate

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verb

To curl (the hair).

OriginLatin calamistrātus →
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Meanings

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

present singular third person calamistrates · participle present calamistrating · participle past calamistrated · past calamistrated

  1. obsoleterareTo curl (the hair).

    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 […].

    1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition III, section 2, member 2, subsection ii

Origin

  1. Latincalamistrātus
  2. Englishcalamistrate

Borrowed from Latin calamistrātus, perfect passive participle of calamistrō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

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APA

calamistrate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/calamistrate

MLA

“calamistrate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/calamistrate. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “calamistrate,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/calamistrate.

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