A small decorative curl or frizz of hair, often worn as part of a hairstyle or added as a hairpiece.
From French 'frisette,' diminutive of 'frise,' originally meaning a small frieze but adapted to mean a small curl or wave of hair.
In the 19th century, frisettes were fake curls women could pin into their hair—a Victorian workaround for achieving elaborate curls without damaging real hair every day.
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