Eugene wave

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English

Etymology

Proprietary name.

Noun

Eugene wave (plural Eugene waves)

  1. (now historical) A brand of home perm.
    • 1978, Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop, Fourth Estate, published 2014, page 3:
      Florence […] saw herself and her friend, their hair in Eugene waves, chained pencils round their necks, young assistants of twenty-five years ago at Müller's in Wigmore Street.
    • 2002, Charlotte Bingham, The Chestnut Tree:
      'Thanks to your natural curls you will never have to have a Marcel perm or a Eugene wave, think of that.’