Meanings
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of beringleted.
The modern woman is more outspoken than her be-ringletted grandmother would ever have dared to be;
1906 October 4, Rosalie Neish, “The Modern Woman”, in Montgomery Times, Montgomery, Ala., page two, column 32 more examples
[…]and the flaunting lace caps of the women, the showy uniforms of the civil and military authorities, and the be-capped, be-piped, and be-ringletted Bürchen[-]classe who throng the streets, give the whole the appearance of a carnival on a grand scale.
1845 August 13, “The Preparations at Bonn”, in The Standard, number 6565, London, column 2[…]and Frank was already quite ashamed of his suspicions, and beginning to discard them as entirely unfounded, when again the door was thrown open, and, accompanied by her husband—overdressed, be-flounced, be-ringletted, and panting from the recent labours of the toilet—the real fugitive made her appearance in the portly person of Gertrude’s stepmother, the second Mrs Blake.
1846 July 18, “Slips of the Tongue”, in Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal, number 133, Edinburgh, page 38, column 1
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