crimpy

For example, I cannot credit that the mettlesome poet, Byron, would have contentedly sat down with Bartleby to examine a law document of, say five hundred pages, closely written in a crimpy hand.

From The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

Her hair hung in a crimpy torrent to below her waist.

From Maida's Little Shop by Inez Haynes Gillmore

The morning was crimpy cold, but the horses warmed to the work, and covered the two miles to the bend before the sun even streaked the east.

From Wells Brothers The Young Cattle Kings by Andy Adams

Then I met little Kit Seymour, a girl from the south, who had reddish hair, all crimpy, and spoke soft, soft English as if she were breathing what she said at you.

From Deep Moat Grange by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

She has a knot of soft, crimpy, brown hair with a thread of gray in it, a sunny face with rosy cheeks, and big, kind eyes as blue as forget-me-nots.

From Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery