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Perm

noun
1.
A city in the European part of Russia.  Synonym: Molotov.
2.
A series of waves in the hair made by applying heat and chemicals.  Synonyms: permanent, permanent wave.
verb
1.
Give a permanent wave to.





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"Perm" Quotes from Famous Books



... when his wife was taken seriously ill. When she was a little better he made a tour by the Volga and the Kama as far as Perm. On his return he settled with his wife in a summer villa not far from Moscow; he spent July there and returned home to Yalta in August. But the longing for a life of movement and culture, the desire to be nearer to the theatre, drew him to the north again, and in September he was back in ...
— Letters of Anton Chekhov • Anton Chekhov
... the Biarmians or Permians of the northern writers; and Perm or Permia is still mentioned among the numerous titles of the ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 1 • Robert Kerr
... night that the Cure made up his mind to volunteer, and soon he was at the Front. Nearly three years passed before he and De Visgnes met again, both en permission, travelling back to Rheims to pass their "perm." Jean was now engaged to Liane de St. Pol who, with her parents, had remained in the bombarded town, refusing to desert their poor protegees. The two planned to marry, after the war; but Liane had been struck by a flying fragment of shell, and wounded in the head. ...
— Everyman's Land • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... the Russian governments of Ufa, Orenburg, Perm and Samara, and parts of Vyatka, especially on the slopes and confines of the Ural, and in the neighbouring plains. They speak a Tatar language, but some authorities think that they are ethnically a ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 - "Banks" to "Bassoon" • Various
... off from supplies of coal. Kolchak holds the Perm mining district, although Soviet troops are now on the edge of it. Denikin still holds the larger part of the Donetz coal district and has destroyed the mines in the portion of the district which he has evacuated. As a result of this, ...
— The Bullitt Mission to Russia • William C. Bullitt


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