ringlets

By-the-by, the young man has his hair done up in ringlets, while his father sticks to the old style, so perhaps the ringlets are a new masher fashion of the Arab tribes.

Three Months in the Soudan 1885

His forehead, haloed by golden ringlets, is high and far more bleached than Eleonora's.

Bronzino's Medici portraits – review James Hall 2010

Tadpole, bless her little ringlets, is just letting her French side shine on through.

red 2007

Anis Mogjani — small, yet lanky, seemingly elastic; with longish dark hair culminating in ringlets — loped across the stage and dazzled.

returning to the national slam as an observer, 8 years later : Jeffrey McDaniel : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

It lay on the table in ringlets of gold, which seemed to writhe, as if they too were suffering.

Purple Springs 1921

He was a tall, limber fellow, with a very swarthy skin and black, oily-looking hair that fell in short ringlets about his ears and neck, and a black, drooping mustache which gave him a rather hang-dog look.

Saint Martin's Summer Rafael Sabatini 1912

And your bright hair in ringlets across my cheek blown

The Four Winds of Eirinn 1906

Now he saw that the golden hair flowed in ringlets around a fair, roseate face, soft and bright with feeling and intelligence.

The Hidden Hand 1888

Her hair, a veritable crown of gold, clustered in short ringlets over her shapely head, half hiding the ivory brow, beneath which eyes of deep and glorious grey flashed out in tender majesty.

Allan Quatermain Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Her hair of steely gray was worn in short ringlets, and she was attired in a dress of ashen gray silk, trimmed with the same material.

Tea Party Teachings Staff 1873