v. [f. BE- + CURL v.] To cover or deck out with curls. Hence Becurled ppl. a.
1614. Sylvester, Bethulia’s Rescue, V. 201. Judith … Becurles her Tresses.
1624. Milton, Paraph. Ps. cxiv. To hide his frost-becurled head.
1824. Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. I. (1863), 202. Miss Phœbe … is said to have becurled … herself at least two tiers higher.
1860. A. L. Windsor, Ethica, vii. 352. Questions … discussed by becurled young declaimers who would not for their reputations have called a pickled herring or a bulrush by their names.
