bull-head n.2
a mass of curled or frizzled hair worn over the forehead by a woman.
Rehearsal Transpos’d I 3: To trick up the good old Bishop in a yellow Coif and a Bulls-head, that he may appear in Fashion. | ||
(ref. to 1674) | Academy of Armoury II xvii 119: Some term this curled Forehead from the French word Taure, a Bull-head. This was the fashion of Women to wear Bull-heads, or Bull-like foreheads, anno 1674.