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单词 curl-pate
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curl-paten.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcurl-pate.
a. A curly head.
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1615 J. Stephens Ess. & Characters (new ed.) 214 He thinks to have a curle-pate is to have a visible wit.
b. A curly-headed person.
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1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 135 Compare the Roman names that seeme so stately..what is..Crispus [but] Curle-pate.
1789 M. Madan tr. Persius Satires (1795) 17 The exercises of an hundred curl-pates.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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