a. Having a curly head of hair; curly-headed.
1594. Carew, Huarte’s Exam. Wits (1616), 188. Why the men of Æthyopia … are commonly curle-pated and flat nosed.
1742. Jarvis, Quix., I. III. xxvi. A little curl-pated Moor.
1841. Macaulay, W. Hastings, Ess. (1854), 595/1. The curl-pated minions of James the First.
