bowknots

These cookies are sometimes shaped in bowknots or other fancy shapes, but for Christmas they are made in a shape suggestive of the swaddling clothes—or actually the diapers!

Christ's Diapers Jessica 2009

These cookies are sometimes shaped in bowknots or other fancy shapes, but for Christmas they are made in a shape suggestive of the swaddling clothes—or actually the diapers!

Archive 2009-01-01 Ruth 2009

The bowknots, the showlots, they wilted into woeblots.

Finnegans Wake 2006

The advancing film from the desert, grown black, became an illuminated scroll; thin ribbons of gold were traced on it, bowknots of tinsel.

The Rim of the Desert Ada Woodruff Anderson

"No, sir, I ain't going to stay, tied in bowknots with rheumatiz, and these poor young-ones ...."

Across the Fruited Plain Florence Crannell Means 1935

To abandon the pink-and-white bloom that slept all night without crying in the cove of her arm, to the grayness of a nursery that should have been pink and white and sweetly fragrant with powders and puffs and the rosy kind of tufted coverlets with scent between them that her mother had once sewn over with bowknots for the Kemble baby.

Star-Dust Fannie Hurst 1928

The buttons buttoned as fast as they were unbuttoned; the pins quilted themselves in as fast as they were pulled out; and the strings flew round like lightning and twisted themselves into bowknots as fast as they were untied.

The Children's Book of Christmas Stories Asa Don Dickinson 1918

Bloom's wake, the last zigzagging white on the breeze a mocking kite, a tail of white bowknots.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

It was worn high on her head, banded a la grecque, with a small knot on the crown from which depended a number of ringlets ornamented with bowknots.

Viola Gwyn George Barr McCutcheon 1897

When I went to father, hoping for consolation, he was even less charitable, remarking that he thought now long lines were more suitable and graceful for me than bunches and bowknots.

People of the Whirlpool Mabel Osgood Wright 1896