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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
topknot
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Hair formed either a halo or a topknot, instead of falling into whatever style a woman wished it might.
▪ He cut off his topknot, wore his hair in the short Western style, and grew a trim mustache.
▪ He stared at the topknot of red-gold curls, straining to remember.
▪ His head was shaven but for a topknot.
▪ His mates laughed, and helped him tie the topknot.
▪ Only a bold topknot of dry leaves thrust from his crown, grey-green and jagged.
▪ To a Clinton outfitted in topknot and kimono.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Topknot

Topknot \Top"knot`\, n.

  1. A crest or knot of feathers upon the head or top, as of a bird; also, an ornamental knot worn on top of the head, as by women.

    A great, stout servant girl, with cheeks as red as her topknot.
    --Sir W. Scott.

  2. (Zo["o]l.) A small Europen flounder ( Rhoumbus punctatus). The name is also applied to allied species.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
topknot

1680s, "a bow;" 1700, "tuft of hair on the head," from top (adj.) + knot (n.).

Wiktionary
topknot

n. 1 a decorative knot of hair on the crown of the head, sometimes having ribbons or feathers 2 a decorative headdress 3 A crest or knot of feathers upon the head or top, as of a bird. 4 A small European flounder ((taxlink Rhoumbus punctatus species noshow=1) or allied species).

WordNet
topknot

  1. n. headdress consisting of a decorative ribbon or bow worn in the hair

  2. showy crest or knot of hair or feathers

Wikipedia
Topknot

Topknot may refer to:

  • A hairstyle or haircut, historically prevalent in Asia:
    • Chonmage, a traditional Japanese haircut worn by men
    • Sangtu, a knot of hair that married men of the Joseon Dynasty wore in Korea
    • Touji (頭髻), a knot of hair worn by Chinese men up to the end of the Ming Dynasty and still worn by Taoist priests
    • Sikha, worn by orthodox Hindus
    • Khokhol, oseledets traditional Ukrainian haircut
    • Tikitiki, a top-knot worn by high-ranking Māori men
  • Several species of fishes:
    • The New Zealand topknot, Notoclinus fenestratus
    • The Norwegian topknot, Phrynorhombus norvegicus
    • The Brown topknot, Notoclinus compressus
    • Several species in the genus Zeugopterus
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Usage examples of "topknot".

Leaping down from the broken stalagmite, Andzrel strode toward the captain who commanded them, a slender female in adamantine armor with white hair drawn up in a topknot.

There are groups of women of every age, decked out in their smartest clothes, crowds of mousmes with aigrettes of flowers in their hair, or little silver topknots like Oyouki--pretty little physiognomies, little, narrow eyes peeping between their slits like those of new-born kittens, fat, pale, little cheeks, round, puffed-out, half-opened lips.

Close at hand was the snowy mass of the Great Altels cooling its topknot in the sky and daring us to an ascent.

Feathers had been woven into ita tiny owlet nestled at the base of the topknot, a nestling Kethry thought to be a clever carving, until it moved its head and blinked.

The nickname they had bestowed upon him was Specht, Woodpecker, for his fiery topknot.

The drunken miller, who had been good for absolutely nothing at all, she managed, through her own manly pulling of his topknot every day, without any extraneous remedies, to turn not into a man but into pure gold.

Slightly the taller of the two, he had shaved his Shienaran topknot and was not best pleased by the growth of short hair covering his scalp.

There was an ahu there, too: Ahu Nau Nau with seven moai, four with red topknots, and another single moai on the slope of a hill, dedicated to Heyerdahl.

While the other mousmes walked along hand in hand, adorned with new silver topknots which they had succeeded in having presented to them, and amusing themselves with playthings, she, pleading fatigue, followed, half reclining, in a djin carriage.

A stray lock of her hair fell from her topknot, and she reached up to reanchor it.

She had finally gotten used to his clothing, the beaded loincloth, the decorated arm and leg sheaths, and the topknot made of his black hair, ornamented by feathers.

She had trimmed his sidelocks and rubbed fragrant camellia oil into his long black hair and was arranging it in a topknot.

Their small topknots were fashionably askew, and their sidelocks stood out in disorderly fringes from their florid faces.

Boitelle would pause, with wondering eyes, wide-open mouth, laughing and enraptured, showing his teeth to the captive cockatoos, who kept nodding their white or yellow topknots toward the glaring red of his breeches and the copper buckle of his belt.

There, in sight of the suspicious courtiers, he drew out his blade to test its edge against his topknot.