
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin calamistratus (crisped, curled with the curling iron),
from calamistrum (curling iron)
EXAMPLE
“…Which belike makes our Venetian Ladies at this day, to counterfeit yellow haire so much, great women to Calamistrate and curle it up, vibrantes ad gratiam crines, & quot orbibus in captivitatem flexos, to adorne their heads with spangles, pearles, and made flowres, and all Courtiers to affect a pleasing grace in this kinde…”
From: The Anatomy of Melancholy
By Robert Burton, 1628