capillature

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English

Etymology

Latin capillatura.

Noun

capillature (uncountable)

  1. A bush of hair; frizzing of the hair.
    • 1877, John Whitford, Trading Life in Western and Central Africa:
      The barbers afterwards rub Shea butter well over those billiard-ball bald heads, and presently the unseen forest springs up, and heavy crops of capillature result.

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