1400–1568. [see b.].
1669. E. Montague, Art of Mettals, II. xix. (1674), 67. That some little hairyness, or crisping encompasseth the Pellets of Quicksilver.
1683. (title) England’s Vanity … wherein Naked Breasts and Shoulders … Long Perriwigs … Curlings, and Crispings, are condemned.
b. Comb., as in crisping-crook, -iron, -pin, -tongs, instruments for crisping or curling the hair, etc.
a. 1400[?]. Morte Arthur, 3353. The krispane kroke to my crownne raughte.
1483. Cath. Angl., 83. A Cryspyngeyren, acus.
1568. Bible (Bishops’), Isa. iii. 20. The wimples, and the crisping pinnes.
c. 1618. Fletcher, Q. Corinth, IV. i. Never powder, nor the crisping-iron, Shall touch these dangling locks.
1637. Pocklington, Altare Chr., 42. Fetch me my Crisping pinnes to curle my lockes.
1772. Ann. Reg., 220. Cease, with crisping tongs, to tare And torture thus thy flowing hair.
1874. [see CRISPER].
