Psyche knot
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Psyche knot
First recorded in 1885–90
Example Sentences
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He tried to imagine her daintily slippered, clad in white, with her loose hair gathered in a Psyche knot; or in evening dress, with arms and throat bare; but the pictures were difficult to make.
From A Mountain Europa by Fox, John
So she wore her crimson homespun and her bonnet, with her bronze-gold hair gathered under it in the same old Psyche knot.
From The Trail of the Lonesome Pine by Fox, John
She was very fair, very pink and white, with a Psyche knot of shimmering hair; a tall, slender girl, clad in clinging, gauzy blue.
From David Malcolm by Lloyd, Nelson
“I’m not working to-day,” announced the operator shortly, arranging her huge Psyche knot at the mirror beside her desk.
From Molly Brown's Junior Days by Speed, Nell
In the twilight Kahuiti stood before us, his long white beard tied in a Psyche knot on his broad, tattooed chest.
From White Shadows in the South Seas by O'Brien, Frederick
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