topknot

On stage, Amber spoofed Sarah Palin in a topknot and librarian glasses, yanking a toy gun and stuffed moose from her skirt.
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She had bright-red lips and her hair was bound up tightly in a topknot.
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The doves were cooing and fluttering in the cornices and the cockatoo was preening his lemon colored topknot.
The Adventures of Kathlyn|Harold MacGrath
To invite a man to sit until the fire was extinguished with the overflow of the quid was with him the topknot of courtesy.
An Arkansas Planter|Opie Percival Read

Therefore the father waxed thoughtful from his topknot to the end of his long-stem pipe.
Where Half The World Is Waking Up|Clarence Poe
Im a-goin to knock the topknot offn that bluejay, chuckled Uncle Jabez.
Ruth Fielding In the Red Cross|Alice B. Emerson
"They shan't scold at my cunning little Topknot," whispered Horace, consolingly.
Dotty Dimple's Flyaway|Sophie May

British Dictionary definitions for topknot

topknot

/ (ˈtɒpˌnɒt) /

noun

a crest, tuft, decorative bow, chignon, etc, on the top of the head

any of several European flatfishes of the genus Zeugopterus and related genera, esp Z. punctatus, which has an oval dark brown body marked with darker blotches: family Bothidae (turbot, etc)

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