Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A long, spirally curled lock of hair.
- noun A small circle or ring.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A circle, in a poetical or unusual sense; a ring other than a finger-ring: used loosely.
- noun A curl of hair; usually, a long and spirally curled lock, as distinguished from one of the small naturally curled locks of short hair.
- noun An English collectors' name for certain satyrid butterflies: thus, Epinephele hyperanthus is the ringlet, and Cœnonympha tiphon is the small ringlet.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A small ring; a small circle; specifically, a fairy ring.
- noun A curl; especially, a curl of hair.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
ring . - noun A
lock ,tress . - noun A brown
butterfly with numerous small rings on under wings, Aphantopus hyperantus, of the familyNymphalidae .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of various butterflies belonging to the family Satyridae
- noun a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
- noun a strand or cluster of hair
- noun a small ring
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Examples
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She wears one long ringlet (presumably one on each side); and this ringlet is a characteristic feature of female heads in archaic Greek art.
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But the dreadlocks look — an intense kind of ringlet where strands fuse into a flail of single ropes — is really West Indian in origin.
In Africa, where there are dreadlocks, there are white tourists being preyed upon 2010
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None so keen as these young misses to know an inward movement by an outward sign of adornment: if they have not as many signals as the ships that sail the great seas, there is not an end of ribbon or a turn of a ringlet which is not a hieroglyphic with a hidden meaning to these little cruisers over the ocean of sentiment.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 Various
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None so keen as these young misses to know an inward movement by an outward sign of adornment: if they have not as many signals as the ships that sail the great seas, there is not an end of ribbon or a turn of a ringlet which is not a hieroglyphic with a hidden meaning to these little cruisers over the ocean of sentiment.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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None so keen as these young misses to know an inward movement by an outward sign of adornment: if they have not as many signals as the ships that sail the great seas, there is not an end of ribbon or a turn of a ringlet which is not a hieroglyphic with a hidden meaning to these little cruisers over the ocean of sentiment.
Elsie Venner Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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She always felt sorry for Mamie Eisenhower whenever she was photographed in a hat perched over her jauntily sad, ringlet-like bangs.
Book World: 'Being Polite to Hitler' rounds out profile of an American family Rachel Basch 2011
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She always felt sorry for Mamie Eisenhower whenever she was photographed in a hat perched over her jauntily sad, ringlet-like bangs.
Book World: 'Being Polite to Hitler' rounds out profile of an American family Rachel Basch 2011
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She watched in her huge dressing-table mirror as one of the maids pulled a ringlet down to its full length, each hair gleaming like gold.
Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011
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A silver-washed fritillary – all tawny orange with black cryptic wing texts and flashes of mother-of-pearl – flew in and was immediately mobbed by ringlet and meadow-brown butterflies.
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These last few have been days to hold on to: bright sunshine through fat-bottomed clouds; ringlet butterflies flickering over flowering grasses; yellow-and-black-banded cinnabar moth caterpillars twitching as they spun threads to tie themselves to ragwort; bright pink lip-gloss heads of pyramidal orchids – these things once observed becoming dearly held.
reesetee commented on the word ringlet
See baldyhead.
April 23, 2009