topknot

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• She wore a false front, which she called a topknot, the small, crimped, deep-brown mohair curls of which were bound about her forehead with a bit of black velvet ribbon, while gray hairs straggled from underneath to make the patent sham more transparent still; and over her topknot she wore a rusty black cap that enclosed the keen monkeyish face like a ruff. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876
• The most common are dragonets, topknots, dabs, plaice and, if you're lucky, the occasional anglerfish and thornback ray.
• There is also a capuchin pigeon with a feathery topknot.
• His long hair, pure white, was twisted up in a kind of topknot and fastened there by pins of dull gold. Darkness and Dawn
• Many, from small topknots and scorpionfish to the ever-smiling tompot blennies, are of no interest to anglers.
• Cassandra started wearing her brown hair in a topknot ponytail as it grew to her lower back.
• He kissed her hand and then the "topknot" as he called the point into which her hair was gathered at the crown of her head. The Great God Success
• Murry had lost his topknot hair, and in a bid to conceal his scalp, he appeared to have grown a cover crop of spindly strands at the nape of his neck that reached, when he combed them up and over, all the way to his forehead.
• He cut off his topknot, wore his hair in the short Western style, and grew a trim mustache.
• The yellowish-green goldcrest is very beautiful with its brilliant gold or yellow topknot, but the firecrest is even more attractive. Times, Sunday Times