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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ringlet
noun
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▪ A swarthy fellow with ringlets was taking a slash at her with a heavy cutlass.
▪ Afterwards she combed out long gray curls which turned into ringlets in the sun.
▪ Beatrice is a typical Botticelli beauty, all ringlets, long fingers, too much drapery.
▪ He had shoulder-length, gleaming black ringlets of hair, a pointy beard, and wore a tailcoat.
▪ Her dark hair fell loose in ringlets, in the fashion of the time.
▪ Her hair would have been worn in ringlets, or perhaps plaited and held in place with decorative pins.
▪ His hair, in long, effeminate ringlets, was barley-fair, like Oliver's.
▪ Miranda Panda stands to my right, wearing a store-bought dress, her hair arranged in perfect ringlets.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ringlet

Ringlet \Ring"let\, n. [Ring + -let.]

  1. A small ring; a small circle; specifically, a fairy ring.

    You demi-puppets, that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites.
    --Shak.

  2. A curl; especially, a curl of hair.

    [Her golden tresses] in wanton ringlets waved.
    --Milton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ringlet

1550s, from ring (n.1) + diminutive suffix -let. Of hair, since 1660s. Related: Ringleted.

Wiktionary
ringlet

n. 1 A small ring. 2 A lock, tress. 3 A brown butterfly with numerous small rings on under wings, in the tribe Satyrini of the family Nymphalidae, such as (taxlink Aphantopus hyperantus species noshow=1).

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WordNet
ringlet

  1. n. a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles [syn: coil, whorl, roll, curl, curlicue, gyre, scroll]

  2. a strand or cluster of hair [syn: lock, curl, whorl]

  3. a small ring

  4. any of various butterflies belonging to the family Satyridae [syn: ringlet butterfly]

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Wikipedia
Ringlet

Note that information on this species applies to Western Europe and some details may not be consistent with the species in other parts of its range.

The Ringlet (Aphantopus hyperantus) is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is only one of the numerous "ringlet" butterflies in the tribe Satyrini.

Ringlet (haircut)

A ringlet is a type of hairstyle. Ringlets are often also known as tube curls or corkscrew curls. It is achieved by wrapping a lock of hair around the length of a thin curling iron or can be sported naturally by people with sufficiently tightly curled hair. The curls can also be achieved by hair rollers. Loose ringlets can be created just by twisting wet hair as well.

Orthodox Jewish men wear payots, which may be curled as ringlets.

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Usage examples of "ringlet".

From one issue the notes of a piano, which a young lady in ringlets practises six hours daily, to the delight of the fellow-lodgers: at another, lovely Polly, the nurse-maid, may be seen dandling Master Omnium in her arms: whilst Jacob, his papa, is beheld eating prawns, and devouring the Times for breakfast, at the window below.

This boy was red-haired, freckle-faced and snub-nosed, and he looked jollier than the other two put together, if that were possible, for his red hair curled in saucy, tight little ringlets, and his mouth was wide with smiles.

Not just one or two that might have floated in from a corner of the room left undusted, but as much as ever, brown ringlets and curlicues of keratin lying stark against the white sheets.

A debut an was raising a face ravaged by smallpox beyond the shelter of lappet or ringlet and the Viceroy bent in service to his Queen.

His hair was shining, ringlets of gold, for all that the years had paled them, and he walked with the sure confidence of a man in his youth.

Gretel and Lena, the Alsatian sisters, all smiles and dimples, their ringlets flashing as they fluttered to and fro between the tables and the kitchen hatch.

The Angel had manifested a human face for the wondercruise: an Apollonian facade with bronzed skin, a long Roman nose, tight brass ringlets with bronze highlights.

Flaxen blond hair turned into ringlets on their heads, pmk lips turned rosy from the sun, and their cheeks stayed flushed with color, while their wide, innocent, blue eyes devoured all faces, swallowed down all first impressions.

No one was dressed as richly as Rhodine, with four flounces to her pink gown and her hair prinked into ringlets.

Hurling sootballs, schoolbag raised as a shield, shrieking with joy in her linen sailor dress, ringlets flying, forever banishing herself from the society of girls.

The Valkyrs, as white clad virgins with flowing ringlets, wait on them in the capacity of cup bearers.

When she impatiently tossed her head to shake away the waterdrops, her clay ringlets melted altogether and trickled down her shoulders.

A moment later he had entwined one of her ringlets about his fingers, just brushing the sensitive skin of her neck as he did so.

He glimpsed breasts rosy from her shower, soft nipples, and damp ringlets of pubic hair a darker shade of butterscotch than the curls sticking to her cheeks.

From every enjoyment I was, of course, excluded: my share of the gaiety consisted in witnessing the daily apparelling of Eliza and Georgiana, and seeing them descend to the drawing-room, dressed out in thin muslin frocks and scarlet sashes, with hair elaborately ringletted.