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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of tousel.

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Examples

  • On the narrow stair that led above, a small, touselled form was sleeping -- one of the cast boys at the Furnace.

    The Three Black Pennys A Novel Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

  • Jed Parker straightened his back, rolled up the bandana handkerchief, and thrust it into his pocket, hit flat with his hand the touselled mass of his hair, and thrust the long hunting knife into its sheath.

    Arizona Nights Stewart Edward White 1909

  • He turned and looked enviously at Amy, who, one bare arm over his touselled head, slept on untroubledly.

    Left Tackle Thayer Ralph Henry Barbour 1907

  • Heath, where the short greensward encroaches on the road, and where the eye roaming east or west or north can discern nothing except a limitless expanse of heather, broken here and there by patches of gorse and bracken, or by clumps of touselled and wind-thinned pines and Scotch firs.

    The Nebuly Coat John Meade Falkner 1895

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