becurl

becurl

(bɪˈkɜːl)
vb (tr)
to cover with curls
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Over the course of the nineteenth century, photographic depictions of children shifted from emphasizing their importance as familial heirs to picturing them as individual objects of sentiment, while other popular cultural renderings made ideal children into becurled and dimpled cherubs.
"Infantile specimens": showing babies in nineteenth-century America
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