curled hair

Noun

curled hair (uncountable)

1. The hair of the manes and tails of horses, tails of cattle, and hair of hogs, prepared for use in upholstery.
   • I know that you could present our case to the committee as well as though we all went, and put it in its true light, so that they can not help but see that the proposed taking off of the duty on curled hair would not only be an injury to us as manufacturers, but more so to our workmen, who now, as...1888, W.S. Gambell, “Tariff Statements”, in Testimony Taken by the Subcommittee on the Tariff of the Senate Committee on Finance in Connection with the Bill H.R. 9051, page 1146
   • Reports in our local newspapers Tuesday, January 7, 1913, stated that Mr. Charles Delaney, of Philadeplphia, Pa., has been agitating before the Ways and Means Committee to place curled hair on the free list. Mr. Delaney, owner of the curled-hair works in Philadephia, Pa., and Toronto Canada, as...1913, Jacob Hannemann, “Brief of the Hair Spinners' Union No. 10399, Chicago, Ill.”, in United States Congressional Serial Set, volume 6497, page 5376
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see curled, hair.
   • But artificially curled hair always loses its curl in damp weather.1912, George Thomas Jackson, A Treatise on diseases of the hair, page 47
   • In tomb decorations of Dynasty XII at Beni Hasan and at Meir, processional scenes show women with curled hair for the first time, as well as foreigners bearing gifts to the tomb owner and wearing their hair in long flowing curls down to the shoulders.1976, Walter F. Reineke, First International Congress of Egyptology, page 213