beringletted

See also: be-ringletted

English

Adjective

beringletted (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of beringleted
   • 1838, “Billy the Bowl”, in [Eliza] Leslie, editor, The Gift: A Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1839, Philadelphia, Penn.: E. L. Carey & A. Hart, page 252:

     Even my lady’s maid, all beflounced and beringletted as she was, would forget her affectations, in listening to Billy’s merry prophecies: and where could the old crones find such another gossip.

   • 1874 October 24, The Spectator. A Weekly Review of Politics, Literature, Theology, and Art., volume the forty-seventh, number 2417, London: John Campbell […], page 1336, column 2:

     […] so that it would be possible for a young lady of this present day to perform a melody in all respects similar to that which her beringletted and scantily-attired sisters of the time of Moses are playing and singing, as depicted on some of the paintings on plaster removed from the Theban tombs, and preserved in the British Museum.

   • 1997, Valerie Walkerdine, “Advertising Girls”, in Daddy’s Girl: Young Girls and Popular Culture, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 165:

     In the Yoplait advert the little girl, also blonde, beringletted, is cast as French, with all the coquettishness and sexiness attached to the fantasy of French women, a pouting mini-Bardot.