topknot

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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

Pulling by the topknot: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe proclaimed that “North Korea launched short-range ballistic missiles” in defiance of the U.N.

From Washington Post • May 28, 2019

One of them wears a topknot, another checks her pedometer.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 8, 2019

They wore black wind masks with two holes for their eyes and a red topknot.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut