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

He had trimmed his hair over break, and pulled it back into a little topknot.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram