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n. (context pluralonly English) tongs, usually electrically heated, used for curling or waving the hair.
Usage examples of "curling tongs".
Once they worked her over with the manicure prodders and eyebrow tweezers, curling tongs and earwax scoops, left her fermenting all afternoon in a mealy flour face mask, then finished her off with a delicate sponging of red ochre across the cheekbones and a fine gleam of antimony above the eyes, Helena Justina was bound to be presentable enough, even to me.
Although the rest of her hair had been gathered in a loose topknot, shimmering ringlets framed her face, coaxed into place with a pair of blistering hot curling tongs and a few impatient tears.
From the same adaptor she drew the power for her radio, her electric ring and her curling tongs.
I mean they don't use curling tongs, anaesthetics on the eyelids, needles in the urethra, that sort of thing.
Instead, it was curled most splendidly upwards all the way along as though it had had a permanent wave put into it or possibly curling tongs heated in the mornings over a tiny flame of methylated spirits.
I cleared away the pots of oil, imported from the elves of Elmas, and replaced the curling tongs carefully in their stand by the grate.
There are a couple of videos which may come from the same source and show people - men, women, children - being tortured with irons, hair-driers, curling tongs and so on.