sausage curl
- noun
:
rizo de salchicha
- She styled her hair with sausage curls for the party, creating a charming look.
Examples
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I still have one tintype of Billy and me sitting on a velvet chair, me with ribbons in my sausage curls.
Fiction book (1998) -
It's 1937, and Garbo, at thirty-two, has earned her most adult face, a gaunt heart pinned under picture hats and sausage curls, ragged white camellias.
Fiction book (1999) -
She met us at the door of her house in a white organdy dress, her red hair tied up in sausage curls with a satin bow.
Fiction book (1999) -
The little girl's sausage curls bounced playfully as she ran across the yard.
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At the fashion show, the models showcased stunning outfits paired with sausage curls draping over their shoulders.
Synonyms
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1.0
A lock of hair shaped into a small spiral
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4.0
A small curl of hair that forms a ring
A small curled piece of hair, thread, or other thin material
How Thick
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is a straightforward shape-based composition: 'sausage' conveys the cylindrical shape and 'curl' denotes a ringlet of hair, so the image of a thick, sausage-shaped curl is directly inferable from the parts. This noun–noun compounding and simple metaphor is cross-linguistically accessible and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Sausage curl comes from the simple picture of hair shaped like a small sausage twisted into a tight curl. That's why it means 'a thick, sausage-shaped curl or ringlet of hair'.