ringleted

English

Alternative forms

• ringletted

Etymology

From ringlet +‎ -ed.

Adjective

ringleted (comparative more ringleted, superlative most ringleted)

1. With the hair in ringlets.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Herman Melville, Omoo

     As for the mob cap, not a fig did I care for it; but, to be taken for anything but a cavalier, by the ringleted one, was absolutely unendurable.

   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 4,

     The picture of a blanched and ringleted Boy George on the cover had been taken by Russell.

Translations

with the hair in ringlets

• Irish: bachallach, barrchas, búclach, caschiabhach, caslúbach, drolach, failíoch, fáinneach, feamainneach
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