His hair was frizzled and powdered, and worn in a French club with black ribbon, and the hair on his temples was loaded with pomatum and rolled twice.
"Cardigan"
Robert W. Chambers
Prichard divides the true negroes into four classes; his second class is thus described: 2. Other tribes have forms and features like the European; their complexion is black, or a deep olive, or a copper color approaching to black, while their hair, though often crisp and frizzled, is not in the least woolly.
"The Antediluvian World"
Ignatius Donnelly
Their frizzled wigs are radiant with grease; their Tobes are splendidly white, with borders dazzlingly red; their new shields are covered with canvass cloth; and their two spears, poised over the right shoulder, are freshly scraped, oiled, blackened, and polished.
"First Footsteps in East Africa or, an Exploration of Harar"
Richard F. Burton