Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A long, spirally curled lock of hair.
- n. A small circle or ring.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A circle, in a poetical or unusual sense; a ring other than a finger-ring: used loosely.
- n. A curl of hair; usually, a long and spirally curled lock, as distinguished from one of the small naturally curled locks of short hair.
- n. An English collectors' name for certain satyrid butterflies: thus, Epinephele hyperanthus is the ringlet, and Cœnonympha tiphon is the small ringlet.
Wiktionary
- n. A small ring.
- n. A lock, tress.
- n. A brown butterfly with numerous small rings on under wings, Aphantopus hyperantus, of the family Nymphalidae.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A small ring; a small circle; specifically, a fairy ring.
- n. A curl; especially, a curl of hair.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any of various butterflies belonging to the family Satyridae
- n. a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
- n. a strand or cluster of hair
- n. a small ring
Examples
“She wears one long ringlet (presumably one on each side); and this ringlet is a characteristic feature of female heads in archaic Greek art.”
“But the dreadlocks look — an intense kind of ringlet where strands fuse into a flail of single ropes — is really West Indian in origin.”
In Africa, where there are dreadlocks, there are white tourists being preyed upon
“None so keen as these young misses to know an inward movement by an outward sign of adornment: if they have not as many signals as the ships that sail the great seas, there is not an end of ribbon or a turn of a ringlet which is not a hieroglyphic with a hidden meaning to these little cruisers over the ocean of sentiment.”
“A silver-washed fritillary – all tawny orange with black cryptic wing texts and flashes of mother-of-pearl – flew in and was immediately mobbed by ringlet and meadow-brown butterflies.”
“These last few have been days to hold on to: bright sunshine through fat-bottomed clouds; ringlet butterflies flickering over flowering grasses; yellow-and-black-banded cinnabar moth caterpillars twitching as they spun threads to tie themselves to ragwort; bright pink lip-gloss heads of pyramidal orchids – these things once observed becoming dearly held.”
“She always felt sorry for Mamie Eisenhower whenever she was photographed in a hat perched over her jauntily sad, ringlet-like bangs.”
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“She watched in her huge dressing-table mirror as one of the maids pulled a ringlet down to its full length, each hair gleaming like gold.”
“First, I think some of your facts are wrong -- I've been to Corfu (just north of the ionians) and seen women with sandy blond hair and ringlet curls who could have stepped right off a classical vase.”
A Childish Question About Immigration, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Each night its General Assembly convenes at the park's Eastern end where anyone can address the crowd while everyone else in and around the ringlet repeats what is being said so those further from the speaker can hear.”
“I went up Irton Pike to see the rare butterfly that is a speciality of these fells: the mountain ringlet, first sighted on Red Screes in the 1800s.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ringlet’.
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Letterrorists
A bunch of -let words, emphasis on the diminutive. Feel free to neologize.
booklet, flatlet, haslet, nutlet, platelet, streamlet, varlet, aglet, gablet, leaflet, piglet, ringlet and 504 more...
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Cute
My boyfriend and I started this list my Junior or Senior year of High school. It hasn't been added to in a while. It was a list of words that we thought sounded universally cute or had universal as...
cupcake, doilee, mitten, kitten, squiggle, button, cheek, papoose, pupa, sleep, cookie, treat and 45 more...
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Diminutives actually formed with -let...
As opposed to members of that other list.
armlet, ringlet, kinglet, streamlet, cloudlet, leaflet, booklet, brooklet, courtlet, crownlet, dukelet, hooklet and 6 more...
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gyre - enquired & unquired
Early in the fall, I watched several hundred eagles riding gyres - higher and higher - as they caught a lift on their migration South. An enquire and unquire of gyre appears called for.
Argyre, argyre planitia, gyreful, Gyrfalcon, gyrencephala, curl, curlicue, gyral, whorl, jabberwocky, gyre, frizzle and 21 more...
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Is it morning yet?
coterie, lexeme, counterbalance, forthright, pigtail, ponytail, french-braid, barrette, listless, counsel, sitting duck, dead duck and 268 more...
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Bird Wirds: Sundry Nicknames
A list of birders' "shorthand" names, traditional nicknames, non-English names, and obsolete names for feathered creatures worldwide.
Interesting blog entry here on naming U.S. birds.welsh ambassador, goatsucker, french magpie, timberdoodle, butterbutt, popinjay, logcock, old cranky, long john, sprog, butterbum, wedgie and 697 more...
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elvesoncrack's Words
lachrymose, blustering, fjord, chihuahua, chiffon, catalytic, stile, gefilte, prosh, thwart, ralph, ickle and 379 more...
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My Little Ponies
A list of My Little Pony names from the original (G1) collection. 1982-1992
cotton candy, butterscotch, blossom, blue belle, minty, snuzzle, seashell, bubbles, bow tie, applejack, sunbeam, medley and 352 more...
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hairstyles
bun, bobtail, ponytail, cornrow, odango*, updo, bouffant, plait, braid, bunches, buzzcut, combover and 331 more...
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The Lies of Locke Lamora
Words and phrases from Scott Lynch's book, The Lies of Locke Lamora
constable, windfall, sternum, commensurate, disinter, grotty, thresher shark, savvy, miser, reticent, magnanimous, trowel and 301 more...
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5-1
Hecko, words! Thanks for staying with me. :-)
avenue, viscous, zeroth, usher, scarcely, viability, snout, sole, purify, riotous, menace, moist and 364 more...
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Words I like to say:
thicket, mojave, lorelei, silvery, ringlet, shimmer, autumn, charming, chilly, lipid, patina, adore and 43 more...
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R
rainbow, raindrops, raven, reef, reef, ribbon, ruffle, rune, rustle, ripple, rhyme, river banks and 19 more...
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Hairstyles
pompadour, beehive, jheri curl, buzz, afro, mullet, mohawk, moptop, bangs, zulu knots, bouffant, bun and 37 more...
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That's enough of your black-chat
Nicknames of the white-fronted black-chat, as listed by ressetee on baldyhead.
baldyhead, tintack, bumps, clipper, moonbird, white-fronted nun, ringlet, ringneck, single-bar, tang
Tweets
Looking for tweets for ringlet.
reesetee See baldyhead. Apr 23, 2009