"Structures" are made here in human hair, and "marcel waving" is done, not, however, we may suppose, for gentlemen.
"Walking-Stick Papers"
Robert Cortes Holliday
On these occasions Aunt Sophy, in black satin, and marcel wave, and her most relentless corsets was, in all the superficial things, not a pleat, or fold, or line, or wave behind her city colleagues.
"Half Portions"
Edna Ferber
She's no raving beauty, but if she would throw out her chest and chuck those flat-heeled clogs of hers, and put a marcel wave in her hair, maybe the old man would sit up and take notice."
"The Blood Red Dawn"
Charles Caldwell Dobie