Also 7 frizze. [f. next vb.] The state of being frizzed or curled; concr. frizzed hair; a row or wig of crisp curls.
1668. Etheredge, She wou’d if She cou’d, III. iii.
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1685. Lond. Gaz., No. 2075/4. Her hair brown of a natural Frizze or Curl about the forehead.
1704. Addison, Italy (1733), 189. I have seen the Figure of Thalia, the Comic Muse, sometimes with an entire Head-piece in her Hand, sometimes with about half the Head, and a little Friz, like a Tower, running round the Edges of the Face.
1802. Syd. Smith, in Edin. Rev., I. 18. Dr. Parr’s wig … swells out into boundless convexity of frizz.
1827. T. Hamilton, Cyril Thornton (1845), 277. His golden locks were spread out in the utmost amplitude of friz.
1861. Wynter, Soc. Bees, 517. The female coiffure of the Stuart period was peculiarly pleasing: clustering glossy curls, which were sometimes made soft and semi-transparent by a peculiar friz, gave life and movement to the face.
fig. 1848. Hare, Guesses, Ser. II. (1867), 478. A similar full-bottomed well-curled friz of words.
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1646. in Thornbury, Haunted London (1865), 383. Gave to old Friz-wig … 0 . 6 . 0.
1714. Steele, Englishman, No. 40, 5 Jan., 260. Their Signs deserve some Notice; at every Corner of a Street a Head staring and strutting with a friz Wig and plenteous Cravat-string, Au grand Monarque.
