Cut short, like a man's
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Ella porém os trazia curtos e mui bem frisados á maneira dos homens.
But she wore it short and well-crimped, in the manner of men.
The detail that makes Rosa singular: hair cropped short 'in the manner of men.' In 1875 it reads as boldness bordering on the improper, and it is exactly the note of transgression the narrator wants — a girl who half-passes for a boy, saucy and unruly.
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