CURLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does curled mean? 

• CURLED (adjective)
  The adjective CURLED has 1 sense:

1. (of hair) making curls or having been made to curl

  Familiarity information: CURLED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CURLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of hair) making curls or having been made to curl

Synonyms:

curled; curling

Similar:

curly ((of hair) having curls or waves)

 Context examples 

The Inspector opened his eyes, and the Colonel’s lip curled in a sneer.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The sheets were made of blue cloth, and Dorothy slept soundly in them till morning, with Toto curled up on the blue rug beside her.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

The hair was curled, and the maid sent away, and Emma sat down to think and be miserable.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I found Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin form curled up in the recesses of his armchair.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His lip curled in a swift sneer.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He shifted on past her to the doctor, though the slightest smile curled his lip in appreciation of the way she had trapped him.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

It has a crisp-textured, tightly curled or wavy outer coat lined with a protective undercoat.

(American Water Spaniel, NCI Thesaurus)

Marked you also how the hair curled round the brow?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A drunken man, snoring horribly in his breathing, was curled up in the passage, absolutely oblivious to the stream of people who flowed round and occasionally over him.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A depression on the surface of the curled rim of the most lateral border of the outer portion of the ear.

(Fossa of the Helix, NCI Thesaurus)