coiffeuse vs crimp

coiffeuse

noun
  • A female hairdresser 

crimp

noun
  • Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks. 

  • One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1854, applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade. 

  • A small hold with little surface area. 

  • The natural curliness of wool fibres. 

  • A grip on such a hold. 

  • A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts. 

  • An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them. 

verb
  • To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked. 

  • To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate. 

  • to hold using a crimp 

  • To bend or mold leather into shape. 

  • To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened. 

  • To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky. 

  • To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy. 

  • To pinch and hold; to seize. 

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