calamistrateEtymologyBorrowed from Latin calamistrātus, perfect passive participle of calamistrō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).verbTo curl (the hair).“Which belike makes our Venetian ladies at this day to counterfeit yellow hair so much, great women to calamistrate and curl it up […], to adorn their heads with spangles, pearls, and made flowers […].”