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- adjective Alternative spelling of
ringleted .
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Examples
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And so to Mike Darnell, former child actor, now the cowboy-hatted, ringletted munchkin in charge of Fox's apocalypse-beckoning reality schedule.
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Without Alicia, my mother would never have had the temptation to pass, but a golden child with strawberry blonde ringletted hair who drew coos of admiration in the street showed my mother exactly what she could have had.
Acceptance Gill Hoffs 2011
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Without Alicia, my mother would never have had the temptation to pass, but a golden child with strawberry blonde ringletted hair who drew coos of admiration in the street showed my mother exactly what she could have had.
Acceptance Gill Hoffs 2011
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A ringletted girl stood on tiptoe to peer at the picture and said softly: —
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Her hair, ringletted, bejewelled and feathered, crowned an ethereal and sensuous beauty that dazzled Lord John.
Sharpe's Waterloo Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 1990
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Miss Le Pettit, who considered that he _had_ forgotten it, gave the little movement known as "bridling," which reared her ringletted head a trifle higher on her white shoulders, then decided to front the obnoxious word bravely as a woman of the world.
The White Riband A Young Female's Folly Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse
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A change that is to be regretted is the exile to the unromantic neighbourhood of the Dyke Station of the Queen of the Gipsies, a swarthy ringletted lady of peculiarly comfortable exterior who, splendid (yet a little sinister) in a scarlet shawl and ponderous gold jewels, used once to emerge from a tent beside the Dyke inn and allot husbands fair or dark.
Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas
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Disraeli, who had lately proclaimed that, although the cause was lost, there should be some retribution for those who betrayed it, figured as a spiteful ringletted viper, and Peel as a smiling unconcerned old file.
The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann
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Early in the morning there was, it is true, a domestic market in the great square, highly interesting to a stranger from the number of curious costumes collected together; the ringletted Polish Jew, old Germans from Altenburg, seeming masqueraders from the mining districts of the Erzgeberge, and country folks from every neighbouring village, who flocked to Leipsic with their wares and edibles.
A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France William Duthie
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Then the stage was filled with dainty, slim, ringletted ladies in high-waisted flowered frocks and gentlemen in tight breeches, long-tailed coats, and high stocks, and the curtains rolled back to disclose a prettier and statelier dance than a modern audience often sees.
Judy of York Hill Ethel Hume Bennett
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