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noun
Ringlet  n.  
1.
A small ring; a small circle; specifically, a fairy ring. "You demi-puppets, that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites."
2.
A curl; especially, a curl of hair. "(Her golden tresses) in wanton ringlets waved."





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"Ringlet" Quotes from Famous Books



... his lordship an odd kind of shock when this little personage arose and turned. The face was old. There was youth in the eyes and the delicate dark-brown arch of the eyebrows, but the old-fashioned ringlet which hung at either cheek beneath the cottage bonnet she wore was almost white. The cheeks were sunken from what had once been a charming contour, the delicate aquiline nose was pinched ever so little, the lips ...
— Aunt Rachel • David Christie Murray
... smoothed his golden hair, One ringlet gently shred; And then, within a costly shroud, She wrapped her ...
— Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland • Abigail Stanley Hanna
... tosses a splash of light here, and it reflects red; He waves the brush again and it blends gradually into orange and gold; then with a piercing thrust He stabs the clouds with a streak of purple that leaves a ringlet or fringe of red oozing out of the wound in the clouds; and so, on and on, He plays, night and morning alike, ever-changing, ever-new, ever-fresh; no patterns, no duplicates, no colors just the same. The beauty of the Indian change in day to night is beyond ...
— Autobiography of a YOGI • Paramhansa Yogananda
... counter to the procession that goes uptown in the late afternoon. Is there a scene like it in the world? The boulevards of Paris in times of peace are hardly so gay. Fifth Avenue is blocked with motor cars. Fashion has gone forth to select a feather. A ringlet has gone awry and must be mended. The Pomeranian's health is served by sunlight. The Spitz must have an airing. Fashion has wagged its head upon a Chinese vase—has indeed squinted at it through a lorgnette against a fleck—and now lolls home to dinner. Or style has veered an inch, and it has been ...
— There's Pippins And Cheese To Come • Charles S. Brooks


Words linked to "Ringlet" :   hairstyle, curl, forelock, whorl, verticil, hair style, gyre, sausage curl, hair, Satyridae, coiffure, calyx, ringlet butterfly, coif, family Satyridae, band, round shape, hairdo, corolla, lock, dreadlock, curlicue, crimp, ring, coil, butterfly, scroll, roll


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