kiss curl

British

noun

US and Canadian term: spit curl. a circular curl of hair pressed flat against the cheek or forehead

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With a kiss curl on her forehead, she looked like one of the Supremes, circa “Baby Love.”

From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2021

Not that anyone could upstage the fabulously styled singer, in her vintage dress and blond kiss curl, which appears to have been sculpted from ice cream.

From The Guardian • Feb. 13, 2011

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