How To Use Topknot In A Sentence
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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
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The most common are dragonets, topknots, dabs, plaice and, if you're lucky, the occasional anglerfish and thornback ray.
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There is also a capuchin pigeon with a feathery topknot.
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His long hair, pure white, was twisted up in a kind of topknot and fastened there by pins of dull gold.
Darkness and Dawn
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Many, from small topknots and scorpionfish to the ever-smiling tompot blennies, are of no interest to anglers.
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Cassandra started wearing her brown hair in a topknot ponytail as it grew to her lower back.
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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
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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.
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He cut off his topknot, wore his hair in the short Western style, and grew a trim mustache.
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The yellowish-green goldcrest is very beautiful with its brilliant gold or yellow topknot, but the firecrest is even more attractive.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are topknotted canaries, and it is a singular fact, that, if two topknotted birds are matched, the young, instead of having very fine topknots, are generally bald, or even have a wound on their heads. [
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.
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Crimping of the bangs will add texture and fullness to the front of your face while crimping of a topknot or ponytail will add height.
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He tried it on the Purple Crackles that flew in the fields by the blackberry bushes; the little Gold Finches that swayed on the grasses; and the topknotted Kingbirds on the telegraph wires overhead.
Half-Past Seven Stories
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Sword-bearing was restricted to the army, and the characteristic topknot hairstyle forbidden.
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She unfastened the velvet choker from her throat, gathered her hair up, and used the choker to tie her hair into a brushy topknot, then pulled her dress off over her head and dropped it into the bin.
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In the Marvel Comics adaptation of Star Wars, the confrontation remains intact, but Jabba is a tall humanoid with a walrus-like face, a scraggly topknot, and a bright uniform.
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Ballan wrasse, dragonets, scorpionfish, butterfish and topknots (common and Norwegian) all occur frequently.
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In the later images she would have been vulnerable to the charge of excessive luxury by wearing a topknot - the cause of some considerable ballad debate over sartorial morality in the 1690s.
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The hairstyle for men in Okinawa (as well as Japan) prior to the modern era was to tie long hair in a knot on top of the head and secure it with a single hairpin, as shown here, or with two hairpins pushed through the topknot from different angles.
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We discern dangling-armed, doll-like Pierrot, the black-masked face and gaudy triangle-patched jumpsuit of Harlequin, the pert topknot of Columbine, the striped jerkin and rakish cowl of Mezzetin.
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All the farmyard life was wonderful there, -- bantams, speckled and topknotted; Friesland hens, with their feathers all turned the wrong way; Guinea fowls that flew and screamed and dropped their pretty spotted feathers; pouter pigeons and a tame magpie; nay, a goat, and a wonderful brindled dog, half mastiff, half bulldog, as large as a lion.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7
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A crown of sapphires sat on her honey colored hair, which was pulled into a fancy topknot.
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The men carry short swords in blunt-tipped scabbards slung around their necks, wear their hair in topknots and sport complicated, swirling facial tattoos.
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By 1668, the term had shifted to chamorro, because Chamorro men often wore a topknot of hair on an otherwise shaved scalp.
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Fish life generally is a bit sparse in the North Sea, but there are several relatively unusual species that favour this cooler water - you may come across lumpsucker, Norwegian topknot, yarrell's blenny and the spectacular wolf-fish.
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They all wore their hair long, generally in a topknot.
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I took a hot but quick shower, pulled my hair up into a topknot, and got dressed before I left my apartment.
Real wifeys
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The North Sea is not the greatest place for fish but on any dive you are likely to see pollack, coalfish, ballan wrasse, anglerfish, topknots and ling.
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Unlike most samurai, he did not wear a topknot, but instead kept his hair long and flowing, tied back in a horse's tail at the nape of his neck.
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A small girl, oblivious of the tiny drama, toys with the float of the lady's hair, which has slipped from her topknot, perhaps as a result of her admirer's tentative advance.
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While he lay thus, meditating upon his blessings, little brown cottontails would shyly frolic through the yard; a covey of white-topknotted blue quail would run past, in single file, twenty yards away; a _paisano_ bird, out hunting for tarantulas, would hop upon the fence and salute him with sweeping flourishes of its long tail.
Sixes and Sevens
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The topknot was the extra touch ” the touch of poetry that I have always looked for in things, and that Hiram, in his way, craved and sought for, too.
Our Friend John Burroughs
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She had a soft Irish accent and a mop of light brown hair twisted into a loose topknot.
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The men carry short swords in blunt-tipped scabbards slung around their necks, wear their hair in topknots and sport complicated, swirling facial tattoos.
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His hair is oiled and groomed into a beehive topknot; his high, unfurrowed forehead is punctuated with a round caste mark.
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The North Sea is not the greatest place for fish but on any dive you are likely to see pollack, coalfish, ballan wrasse, anglerfish, topknots and ling.
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On her last stagger to the loos, she'd tied her hair up in a topknot, which Joan was now looking at with contempt.
JUST BETWEEN US
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The most common are dragonets, topknots, dabs, plaice and, if you're lucky, the occasional anglerfish and thornback ray.
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Becky, slim and small, with her hair peaked up to a topknot, Becky in pale blue, Becky as fair as her string of imitation pearls, Becky in the golden haze of the softly illumined room, Becky, Becky Bannister -- the name chimed in his ears.
The Trumpeter Swan
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Eye clippings and leggings eye clippings, which are also referred to as face pieces, wiggings, or topknots, should never be mixed with crutchings.
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However, we can easily guess his social status from his elaborate coiffure: in the manner of high-ranking men, his hair is done up in a topknot, kept in place by an ornamental hairpin.
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Kings and Gods both wear their hair in beehive topknots and sit cross-legged gazing down from their gaddis under crimson parasols, as the courtiers feast, and dancing girls celebrate their victories over the enemy.
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The most common are dragonets, topknots, dabs, plaice and, if you're lucky, the occasional anglerfish and thornback ray.
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This last is observed in Burma and Laos, but not in Siam and Camboja where is substituted for it the Kôn Chũ̆k or shaving of the topknot, which is allowed to grow until the eleventh or thirteenth year.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3
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Your hair is styled into a fancy ginkgo-leaf-shaped topknot.
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He had sudden visions of the giant kender incarcerated in the Haven jail, with most of his torso and his topknotted head and shoulders sticking up through the hole they would have to cut in the roof.
The Soulforge
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Late the next afternoon Molly lowered one hand from the steering wheel and ran her fingers through Roo's topknot.
THIS HEART OF MINE
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There was a little pink bow in its topknot, which I transferred mentally to Miss Webster's own head.
LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
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Many of them keep long hairs arranged as a topknot known as dhammil in their community but not all of them keep their hair in the same style.
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The Templars' helmet topknots fluttered in a mass of red cloth.
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It has a long, softly curved Body, short legs, and a large, domed head crowned by a silky topknot.
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I wore my hair up in a loose and messy topknot with these flashy, oversized rhinestone hoops.
Real wifeys
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The occipital bone is very prominent. The head is a topknot of long silky hair.
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She dressed for comfort, usually in slacks and sweater, with her red hair caught up in a topknot.
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His sidekick is really funny; the spirits force him to wear a samurai topknot in penance for his cowardice in the “battle league” and the reactions of other people seeing it never get old (I especially like the waitress who is so flustered she drops her serving tray).
Fantastic Fest – Battle League In Kyoto (Kamogawa Horumo) « Geek Related
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Within the wreck are conger, lobsters, edible and swimming crabs, packs of prawns, cuttlefish, topknots, flounders, scorpionfish and a host of blennies and shannies.
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However, we can easily guess his social status from his elaborate coiffure: in the manner of high-ranking men, his hair is done up in a topknot, kept in place by an ornamental hairpin.
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Skerry is already sitting, wolfing things down, her blue hair up in a precarious topknot and a few scattered braids.
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Ballan wrasse, dragonets, scorpionfish, butterfish and topknots (common and Norwegian) all occur frequently.
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The North Sea is not the greatest place for fish but on any dive you are likely to see pollack, coalfish, ballan wrasse, anglerfish, topknots and ling.
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Tasslehoff sang out, skipping around the dazed innkeeper like a topknotted fiend.
Dragons Of Summer Flame
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All green, blue on the leading edges of the wings, a red topknot and red cheek patches; flies beautifully with a swooping flight, more or less like a rosella and it screeches as it flies and this is its territorial call.
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The male has a scaled belly, black chin, and a big, black topknot sticking out of the top of his head.
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Only one other child - a weeping boy - looked up as her face, framed by long dark hair piled in a topknot, appeared at the window.