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curling tongs

plural noun

  1. a metal scissor-like device that is heated, so that strands of hair may be twined around it in order to form curls Also calledcurling ironcurling ironscurling pins
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Mr Adams said all sorts of things had been discovered by his builders, including coins, pistol balls and Victorian curling tongs, but the Hebrew writing had captured people's attention.

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He went out of the compartment and returned a few moments later with a small spirit stove and a pair of curling tongs.

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So the hair dryer stakes are high and the market deeply fragmented, not least by the popularity of newer hand-held electrical appliances like straightening irons and curling tongs.

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Instead, it was curled most splendidly upwards all the way along as though it had had a permanent wave put into it or possibly curling tongs heated in the mornings over a tiny flame of methylated spirits.

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If she is flustered by the curling tongs clamped to her head she doesn't show it.

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