curls
noun B1- Specifically, a body of curly hair on someone's head.
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She solemnly clipped one of Diana’s curls.
“Yes, and I think it is real pretty,” said Diana, looking admiringly at the short, silky curls that clustered over Anne’s head and were held in place by a very jaunty black velvet ribbon and bow.
Then they both bowed low, and their curls got entangled together.
She was somewhat beautiful, and exquisitely formed—a little fairy-like figure, with large curls falling on her neck, which was rather too long, as Perugino sometimes makes his Virgins, and her eyes dull from fatigue.
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