Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Calamistratus

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

CALAMISTRA'TUS. Having the hair artificially curled with the irons (calamister); a practice very prevalent at Rome, both amongst men and women, in the time of Plautus, Varro, and Cicero. Plaut. As. iii. 3. 37. Cic. Post Red. i. 6.