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Vinony

ringlet

noun

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪŋ.lət/

noun

Etymology: From ring + -let. Compare Middle English ryngyl, ryngyll, rengel (“ringlet”).

  1. A small ring.
  2. A lock, tress.

    “Her hair was in ringlets.”

    “For knovv by lot from Jove I am the povvr / Of this fair VVood, and live in Oak'n bovvr, / To nurſe the Saplings tall, and curl the grove / VVith ringlets quaint, and vvanton vvindings vvove.”

  3. Any of various butterflies with small rings on the wings, in the tribe Satyrini of the family Nymphalidae, such as Aphantopus hyperantus.

verb

Etymology: From ring + -let. Compare Middle English ryngyl, ryngyll, rengel (“ringlet”).

  1. To form into ringlets.

    “"It's very becoming!" said Pollie coaxingly, taking his curly head, which she had been brushing and ringleting for the last half hour, all damp, into her arms.”

  2. To surround or encircle like a ringlet.

    “I think now that if it had gripped me with those suckers, I would have gone out into the mist too. But it didn't. It grabbed Norm. And the third tentacle ringleted his other ankle. Now he was being pulled away from me.”