What is "ringleted"

Usage examples of "ringleted".

The ringleted woman tried to reach-his side but was prevented by the wolfhounds still racing in circles.

A clutch of ringleted predebs giggled behind their hands and ran away holding their noses.

The beautifully gowned and bejeweled woman at table, her orange hair elaborately ringleted and besprent with pearls and tiny red stones, was the Lady Samaire, daughter of Ulad and Princess of Leinster.

My share of the gayety consisted in witnessing the daily appareling of Eliza and Georgiana, and seeing them descend to the drawing-room dressed out in thin muslin frocks and scarlet sashes, with hair elaborately ringleted, and afterward in listening to the sound of the piano or harp played below, to the passing to and fro of the butler and footman, to the jingling of glass and china as refreshments were handed, to the broken hum of conversation as the drawing-room doors opened and closed.

Ringed and ringleted, perfumed and pomaded, fringed and furbelowed, beaded and brocaded, he combined nature and nurture so overpoweringly, in fact in such an absolute assonance of synesthetic alliteration, that it became a positive pleasure to remind one's self that the underlying essence of his official cachet, like the musk of sex and the ambergris of the most ancient perfumes, was—Alex bit silently but savagely down on the word—garbage.

Bespectacled and ringleted, the fringes of a prayer shawl splayed from beneath the hem of his shabby vest.