Psyche knot

noun

1. a woman's hairdo in which a knot or coil of hair projects from the back of the head.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Psyche knot¹

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

“I’m not working to-day,” announced the operator shortly, arranging her huge Psyche knot at the mirror beside her desk.

From Project Gutenberg

Because Jack objected, Frieda some time ago had given up her former fashion of wearing her heavy yellow hair in a Psyche knot, and in these months at the ranch when no strangers were about had returned to her old childish custom of two long braids.

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Around her slender throat was a string of priceless pearls, a gift from her father, and her hair, dark and lustrous, was arranged in a Grecian Psyche knot with gold bands.

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Especially if it is very long, very thick, and a most beautiful color, yet cannot be worn hanging down in braids, because you are too tall for anything so childish, nor fastened up in a graceful Psyche knot at the back of the head, quite near the neck, because it is too heavy, and comes tumbling down at inconvenient seasons.

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There was an atmosphere of the world about Sylvia which Mrs. Lem recognized at once from long experience with summer people; and secure in her pompadour, the psyche knot, and the shine of her best gown, she wished to show this young girl that her sophistication was shared even in a rural district.

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