A hairpiece or artificial addition worn to add volume and a frizzed or curly appearance to a woman's hairstyle.
From 'friz' (to curl) with the diminutive suffix '-ette' (from French, meaning 'little'), creating a noun for a small, supplementary frizzed hairpiece.
Victorian and Edwardian women wore frizettes as convenient alternatives to spending hours getting their natural hair permanently frizzed—it was an early form of clip-in extensions!
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