ringlet

Perhaps you’re picturing our intestinal Escherichia coli, or the shiny golden balls of staphylococcus, or the corkscrewing ringlets of Lyme disease spirochetes.

For example, the photo of JonBenét with ringlets in her hair and a crown of baby’s breath flowers continues to be used when discussing her case, even 25 years on.

Heaven curled her fine caramel hair into ringlets and walked the halls in monogrammed sweaters bearing her new family’s name.

The size of the curling iron barrel can take your hair from small ringlets to beach waves with the difference of half an inch.

But the scissors were at hand, and the ringlet was cut and in his pocket before she was ready with her resistance.

I will give it you again in our Isle, and meantime keep it where my other treasures are—my letters and my dear ringlet.

Her hair was still parted over the forehead in the Grecian manner; a single ringlet stole down behind her ear.

His slender, skillful fingers adjusted the band and brushed a stray ringlet of hair back under the furs.

The most Adua had ever seen his dandelions construed for in the spring was a mere ringlet chain.