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frisette

frisette is the alternative form of frizette.

Meaning of frizette

Noun

frizette (plural frizettes)

  1. A fringe of hair or curls around a woman's forehead.
  2. (historical) A pad of frizzed hair or silk formerly worn by women under the hair to stuff it out.
    • This cover offers no impediment to the hairpins, which are much better preserved in this way than by being left about in an untidy fashion. In addition, there should be a tray with various kinds of combs, frizettes and bottles of perfumes.1876, Eliza Bisbee Duffey, Our Behaviour: A Manual of Etiquette and Dress of the Best American Society, Philadelphia

Forms of frisette

pluralfrisettes

Questions about frisette

What is frisette the alternative form of?
Frisette is the alternative form of frizette.

Words near frisette in the dictionary

  1. Friscoite
  2. Frise
  3. Frise aileron
  4. Frise ailerons
  5. frisee
  6. frisette
  7. frisettes
  8. friseur
  9. friseurs
  10. Frisher
  11. Frishman

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Adapted from Wiktionary: frisette (page history and authors); frizette (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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