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[ adjective ] (of hair) having curls or waves

Examples

"they envied her naturally curly hair"

Used in print

(John Dos Passos, Midcentury....)

He had the same bullet_head of curly reddish hair but he did n't have Jim 's poker-faced humor or his brains or his charm .

(Sallie Bingham, "Moving Day," The Atlantic...)

When they came to Mr._Jack 's photograph , twenty by twelve inches in a curly silver frame , Miss_Ada said , `` By_rights I ought to leave that , seeing he won n't take my clotheshorse '' .

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