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
Aracely, her dark hair held in a topknot by a pink band, poked at a white mound of tortilla dough on the kitchen table.
From Washington Post • May 29, 2022
One of them wears a topknot, another checks her pedometer.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 8, 2019
The skin under his eyes was puffy, and Ekon noticed that Fahim's usually neat topknot of dreadlocks looked frizzy and slightly unkempt.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.