Meanings
comparative more ringleted · superlative most ringleted · alternative ringletted
- With the hair in ringlets.
The picture of a blanched and ringleted Boy George on the cover had been taken by Russell.
2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 4, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN1 more example
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.
1847 March 30, Herman Melville, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLCSynonyms: beringleted
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveWith the hair in ringlets.
More synonyms by meaning
adjective(of hair) shaped into ringlets
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Irish bachallach, barrchas
- bachallachwith the hair in ringlets
- barrchaswith the hair in ringlets
- búclachwith the hair in ringlets
- caschiabhachwith the hair in ringlets
- caslúbachwith the hair in ringlets
- drolachwith the hair in ringlets
- failíochwith the hair in ringlets
- fáinneachwith the hair in ringlets
- feamainneachwith the hair in ringlets
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