ringleted

English

Alternative forms

ringletted

Etymology

From ringlet +‎ -ed.

Adjective

ringleted (comparative more ringleted, superlative most ringleted)

With the hair in ringlets.
- 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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