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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
curly
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
curly
▪ When he was young, his hair was thick and curly.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
naturally
▪ And it was no comfort having old ladies telling me how they wished they had naturally curly hair.
▪ First of all, he wears a bandanna because it tames his naturally curly hair.
▪ Even hair which is naturally curly can be transformed because rollers can help to make the existing curls more crisp and structured.
▪ Q I have long, naturally curly hair which always seems to be dry and often goes frizzy.
▪ Whether your hair is naturally curly or permed it needs extra special care to keep it in tip-top condition.
▪ She was a large-boned girl, attractive rather than pretty, with a beautiful skin and naturally curly, short hair.
▪ But Liz revealed her hair was naturally curly and that she prefers to dry it straight.
■ NOUN
hair
▪ With his blue black curly hair and ice blue eyes, he could melt most women with a glance.
▪ First of all, he wears a bandanna because it tames his naturally curly hair.
▪ Her curly hair was back from her face more than yesterday, and she had yellow earrings.
▪ Only his gray, curly hair gives away his age.
▪ He could see Doyle's curly hair, but the man's face was hidden by the anaesthetist's mask.
▪ The acid began to eat away at the edge of her tunic, the bottom strands of her curly hair.
▪ I think Janir resembles her more, with his dark skin, curly hair and strong features.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
red-headed/curly-headed etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Mike is the guy with the curly blond hair.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Aunt Margaret's curly, black handwriting skipped and hopped on the paper because Melanie's eyes were so tired.
▪ He grimaced and scratched his short, curly black hair where it stuck out from under his tartan cap.
▪ He was a big, fine-looking guy, dark skinned with black curly hair.
▪ She has collar-length curly blonde hair, brown eyes and a fair complexion.
▪ She was tall and slim with a huge curly Afro like a crown above her smooth sharp-boned ebony face.
▪ She was young, with a round face and brown curly hair.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Curly

Curly \Curl"y\ (k?rl"?), a. Curling or tending to curl; having curls; full of ripples; crinkled.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
curly

1770s, from curl + -y (2); earliest use is of hair. Related: Curliness.

Wiktionary
curly

a. Having curls. n. a person or animal with curly hair.

WordNet
curly
  1. adj. (of hair) having curls or waves; "they envied her naturally curly hair" [ant: straight]

  2. [also: curliest, curlier]

Wikipedia
Curly (scout)

Ashishishe (c. 1856–1923), known as Curly (or Curley), was a Crow scout in the United States Army during the Sioux Wars, best known for having been one of the few survivors on the United States side at the Battle of Little Bighorn. He did not fight in the battle, but watched from a distance, and was the first to report the defeat of the 7th Cavalry Regiment. Afterward a legend grew that he had been an active participant and managed to escape, leading to conflicting accounts of Curly's involvement in the historical record.

Curly

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Curly (song)

"Curly" was a song recorded in 1969 by English rock group The Move.

The song charted at number 12 in the UK, and was the last single by the band to feature Carl Wayne before his departure from the band, as well as the first with Rick Price replacing Trevor Burton on bass guitar. The instrumentation is mainly acoustic, and Roy Wood, who wrote the song, was featured on multi-tracked recorder as well as acoustic guitar.

Reportedly the song was disliked by the band's drummer Bev Bevan who thought it was too pop and sugary.

Released as a single only, it was later included on the remastered versions of Looking On in 1998 and Shazam in 2007.

Curly (musician)

Anthony J. Mauro (known professionally as Curly) is an American singer-songwriter, recording artist, and former radio host from New York. He became heavily involved in the local music scene of Nyack in 2011 as the frontman of pop-punk band Nothing Personal, who were mostly known for their underground hit "Transparent" which reached the #1 spot on PureVolume's Pop Punk chart, gained over 3,000 views on YouTube via music video, and was featured on multiple promotion sites. Nothing Personal went on indefinite hiatus in 2015, and Curly then pursued a solo career, experimenting with multiple genres and influences. He released his debut studio album L.I.F.E. (Love Infinitely For Eternity) on December 22, 2015 and began touring nationally.

Usage examples of "curly".

Like the Airedale terrier his curly hair made him resemble, whose jaws closed upon prey and locked, not letting go until one of them was dead, Richie would not so easily give up his original idea.

Her long slightly curly hair was spread all around her, in waves of disarray upon her pillow.

He drew a breath and made himself look even bigger, blessed with the wonderful physique of all the Antonians, the curly auburn hair, the reassuringly unintellectual face.

Isobel saw Beckett being pulled into the crowd, led by a beautiful young Bajan woman with masses of curly black hair and a fetching smile.

She was tiny compared to the others, with a cute round face and a mop of curly hair and she was holding up a single bluegill on a nylon cord.

Behind them a shallow brow led to a small, neat brainpan, its modest outline obscured by a thatch of curly dark hair.

A low man with a wide, bulldoggy face and a luxuriant head of curly gray hair came forward.

People are passionate about candies that have disappeared, like the Marathon bar, even though its British twin, the Curly Wurly, is allegedly a fine substitute.

No matter what it was,--a bit of oddly tinted masonry with a tuft of brown and orange wallflowers hanging upon it, or a vegetable stall where endive and chiccory and curly lettuces were arranged in wreaths with tiny orange gourds and scarlet peppers for points of color,--it was all Rome, and, by virtue of that word, different from any other place,--more suggestive, more interesting, ten times more mysterious than any other could possibly be, so Katy thought.

The statue was impressive, showing a woman of extreme beauty in a toga-like Dardanian garment, a diadem on her short curly hair.

Ullmer glanced through the tangle of curly hair on his forearm at his old windup Breitling, the only kind of decoration he would allow his people in the secluded hangars and workshops near Elmira, New York, which NSA people called the Snake Pit.

The curly-headed, delicate boy sat with shining eyes unnoticed in a corner, starting every now and then and muttering something to himself, and evidently experiencing a new and powerful emotion as he turned his curly head, with his thin neck exposed by his turn-down collar, toward the place where Pierre sat.

Her gold hoop earrings against her mocha-colored skin and long, curly black hair gave her a Gypsyish look.

He was all-over huskier and hairier than before, and had grown a beard, brown and curly.

I could see droplets of sweat caught in the curly hairs of his chest, and his nipples, dark buds in the dim light.