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pincurl

pincurl is the alternative form of pin curl.

Meaning of pin curl

Noun

pin curl (plural pin curls)

  1. A curl made by dampening a lock of hair, fashioning it into a coil, and securing with a hair pin or clip while it dries.
    • This invention relates to pin curl clips and it is primarily an object of the invention to provide a clip of this kind which will hold a pin curl in position during the drying process without mashing but in a manner to maintain the curl in its original form.1946, Charles R. Cochran, PIN CURL CLIP, US Patent 2,400,488

Forms of pincurl

pluralpincurls

Questions about pincurl

What is pincurl the alternative form of?
Pincurl is the alternative form of pin curl.

Words near pincurl in the dictionary

  1. pincodes
  2. pincoffin
  3. Pincoya storm petrel
  4. Pincoya storm petrels
  5. pincpinc
  6. pincurl
  7. pincurls
  8. Pincus
  9. Pincuses
  10. pincushion
  11. pincushion corner

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pincurl (page history and authors); pin curl (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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