different between ringlet vs ringleted
ringlet
English
Etymology
From ring +? -let. Compare Middle English ryngyl, ryngyll, rengel (“ringlet”).
Noun
ringlet (plural ringlets)
- A small ring.
- A lock, tress.
- Her hair was in ringlets.
- 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23
- She was both beautiful and young to their eyes. Her hair was a rich red in color and fell in flowing ringlets over her shoulders. Her dress was pure white but her eyes were blue, and they looked kindly upon the little girl.
- (entomology) Any of various butterflies with small rings on the wings, in the tribe Satyrini of the family Nymphalidae, such as Aphantopus hyperantus.
Translations
Verb
ringlet (third-person singular simple present ringlets, present participle ringleting, simple past and past participle ringleted)
- (transitive) To form into ringlets.
- 1877, Ella Farman, Good-for-nothing Polly (page 163)
- "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.
- 1877, Ella Farman, Good-for-nothing Polly (page 163)
- (transitive) To surround or encircle like a ringlet.
- 1980, Stephen King, The Mist
- 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.
- 1980, Stephen King, The Mist
Anagrams
- Giltner, Tingler, tingler, tringle
German
Pronunciation
Verb
ringlet
- second-person plural subjunctive I of ringeln
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ringleted
English
Alternative forms
- ringletted
Etymology
From ringlet +? -ed.
Adjective
ringleted (comparative more ringleted, superlative most ringleted)
- With the hair in ringlets.
- As for the mob cap, not a fig did I care for it; but, to be taken for anything but a cavalier, by the ringleted one, was absolutely unendurable.
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 4,
- The picture of a blanched and ringleted Boy George on the cover had been taken by Russell.
Translations
Verb
ringleted
- simple past tense and past participle of ringlet
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