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Psyche knot

noun

  1. 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.

The fair hair was brought smoothly up over the well-shaped head, and wound in a pretty, fluffy Psyche knot.

There was Mrs. Lem's majestic pompadour and psyche knot, and the company expression which always dilated her nostrils.

In the twilight Kahuiti stood before us, his long white beard tied in a Psyche knot on his broad, tattooed chest.

June was coming in—she wore her homespun, her scarlet homespun and the Psyche knot.

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