permed
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4.2
- adjective
- /pɜrmd/
:
permanente
- After the treatment, my sister proudly showed off her permed hair, which made her look completely different.
- permed hair
- blond permed
Examples
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I have the cool earrings on, and my recently permed hair, cut bluntly at the chin, frames my black-lined and mascaraed eyes.
Fiction book (1993) -
Every morning, a group of permed and high-heeled women picked her up and plunged into the stop-and-go traffic of Chicagoland's rush hour.
Fiction book (2002) -
Her white hair was perfectly permed.
Fiction book (2000) -
Her permed hair tilted a little toward the boy.
Fiction book (1995) -
She was pretty, with permed blond hair.
Fiction book (1994) -
She looked so fresh with her pink cheeks and permed hair.
Fiction book (1994) -
Now, on the couch next to Douglas and Cara were two women with permed hair and cigarettes, quietly talking.
Fiction book (1993) -
Her blond permed hair was unkempt, and she was overweight, fashion-magazine standards aside.
Fiction book (2002) -
"One Sunday morning that September, before Mass, a man slipped into the pew next to me, a beefy man with a big head of permed brown hair, wearing a blue double-breasted suit and a blue shirt with a white collar.
Fiction book (1998) -
Her permed hair was styled in tight curls that bounced with every step she took.
Synonyms
95
1.0
Hair that forms many small round waves
5
2.7
Hair that forms small round shapes or waves
Hair that forms many small round loops or waves
Hair shaped into deep even waves using a hot curling iron
How Curly
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Permed comes from perm, short for permanent, from the phrase permanent wave, where 'permanent' means 'lasting', so permed hair has curls made to 'last'.