Eugene wave
nounEtymology Proprietary name.
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Historical A brand of home perm.
- Florence […] saw herself and her friend, their hair in Eugene waves, chained pencils round their necks, young assistants of twenty-five years ago at Müller's in Wigmore Street.1978, Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop, Fourth Estate, published 2014, page 3:
- 'Thanks to your natural curls you will never have to have a Marcel perm or a Eugene wave, think of that.’2002, Charlotte Bingham, The Chestnut Tree: