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- noun Plural form of
topknot .
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Examples
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They wear their hair in topknots, dress in traditional robes and train in communal “stables.”
world class athlete tarnished by marijuana scandal | clusterflock 2009
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There were coolies and peddlers who shouted insults at the Lady Om and who felt the wrath of my clutch in their topknots, the wrath of my knuckles in their faces.
Chapter 15 2010
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The English were amazed at the giant, flat-headed statues with their inscrutable sphinx-like faces and cylindrical ten-ton topknots of red stone balancing on their brows.
Richard Bangs: Skullduggery on Easter Island (Part I of II) Richard Bangs 2011
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The white ducks had topknots, and what appeared to be exotic green ducks turned out on closer inspection to have a large part of mallard in them.
Clun Bridge 2008
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Instead of exclusive pods of Mexicans, Guatemalans, Armenians, Filipinos, Sikhs with their topknots, Russians — kids whose mothers stand by their cars and chat among themselves in foreign tongues — I would love to think of these children in terms of their instruments — Violins!
Tales Out of School 2008
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They're the type with the big feathery topknots that resemble haute couture hats from the 1950's.
The Chicken Chronicles Sandra Knauf 2010
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So they're very fluffy, from their feet to their topknots, the feathers atop their heads.
The Chicken Chronicles Sandra Knauf 2010
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The white ducks had topknots, and what appeared to be exotic green ducks turned out on closer inspection to have a large part of mallard in them.
Archive 2008-10-01 2008
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Chickens with poufy topknots; chickens with feathered feet; chickens with turquoise earlobes; chickens who lay green eggs though not with ham; chickens with tails that can grow twenty feet long … When I placed my initial order with the hatchery, I had many breeds to choose from.
Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010
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Instead of exclusive pods of Mexicans, Guatemalans, Armenians, Filipinos, Sikhs with their topknots, Russians — kids whose mothers stand by their cars and chat among themselves in foreign tongues — I would love to think of these children in terms of their instruments — Violins!
Tales Out of School 2008
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