topknot
Example Sentences
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Perhaps the most striking is the pied kingfisher, commonly called a helldiver, with its black and white plumage, shaggy topknot and slender beak.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2023
His topknot had just been cut off as a forfeit for losing out on a challenge to a colleague at the direct sales company for which he worked in 2018.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2022
Several of Max-Karl Winkler’s subjects are enclosed within circles, and in his “The Checkered Scarf,” a woman’s torso, topknot and titular scarf all protrude from the oblong that contains her head.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 7, 2021
One of them wears a topknot, another checks her pedometer.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 8, 2019
Her blue flannel shirt was threadbare and old, and her silky blond hair was up in a topknot.
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
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