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mar·cel (mär sel′)

noun

a formerly popular hairstyle consisting of a series of even waves put in the hair with a curling iron
also marcel wave

Etymology: after Marcel Grateau, early 20th-c. Fr hairdresser

transitive verb marcelled -·celled′, marcelling -·cel′·ling

to put such waves in (hair)
Marcel1 definition

Mar·cel (mär sel′)

noun

a masculine name
Marcel2 definition

Mar·cel (mȧr sel′)

Marcel, Gabriel (gȧ brē el′) 1889-1973; Fr. philosopher

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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