a. A curly head. b. A curly-headed person.
1605. Camden, Rem., Surnames (R.). Compare the Roman names that seeme so stately … what is Crispus but curle-pate.
1615. J. Stephens, Satyr. Ess. (ed. 2), 214. He thinks to have a curle-pate is to have a visible wit.
1789. M. Madan, trans. Persius (1795), 17. The exercises of an hundred curl-pates.
