Obs. Also frizure. [a. Fr. frisure, f. friser: see FRIZZ.] Mode or fashion of curling the hair.
1755. Lond. Mag., July, 343. Let an artificial flow’r Set the frisure off before.
1771. Smollett, Humph. Cl., II. 18 July, Let. i. She was most remarkable for the frisure of her head.
1773. Graves, Spirit. Quixote, V. vii. 285. His hair was of a dark brown; and though it had not received the fashionable frizure, it was grown thick enough to shade his face, and long enough to curl.
1790–1811. W. Combe, The Devil upon Two Sticks in England (1817), IV. 23. The immense expanding frisure of 1780.
