The corpus record — Latin

calamistratus

calamistratus · adj

curled with the curling-iron

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Where it lives

Cum Senatui Gratias Egit 1 · 2.31/10k
Asinaria 1 · 1.24/10k
Pro P. Sestio 1 · 0.6/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k

What it meant

călămistrātus — Lewis & Short

călămistrātus, a, um, adj.calamister,

I curled with the curling-iron, crisped, curled (of men, a reproach for effeminacy; cf. Serv. ad Verg. A. 12, 100): cinaedus, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 37: coma, Cic. Sest. 8, 18: saltator, id. post Red. in Sen. 6, 13.—Of fops: pueri cincinnatuli et calamistrati, Hier. Ep. 130, 19; so Ambros. Ep. 4, 15.

In the wild

calamistrata Cicero, Pro P. Sestio 18
calamistrati Cicero, Cum Senatui Gratias Egit 13
calamistrate Plautus, Asinaria 3.3
calamistratus Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 54.13

Where it came from

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