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Psyche knot
noun
- a woman's hairdo in which a knot or coil of hair projects from the back of the head.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Psyche knot1
First recorded in 1885–90
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Example Sentences
So she wore her crimson homespun and her bonnet, with her bronze-gold hair gathered under it in the same old Psyche knot.
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The fair hair was brought smoothly up over the well-shaped head, and wound in a pretty, fluffy Psyche knot.
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There was Mrs. Lem's majestic pompadour and psyche knot, and the company expression which always dilated her nostrils.
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In the twilight Kahuiti stood before us, his long white beard tied in a Psyche knot on his broad, tattooed chest.
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June was coming in—she wore her homespun, her scarlet homespun and the Psyche knot.
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