marcelling

Variant of marcel

marcel definition

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)

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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