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Definition of Topknots
1. topknot [n] - See also: topknot
Lexicographical Neighbors of Topknots
Literary usage of Topknots
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"... down to their breeches, wenches who wear high topknots on their heads and
never a smock on, painted whores in ..."
2. The Life-histories of the British Marine Food-fishes by William Carmichael M'Intosh, Arthur Thomas Masterman (1897)
"Remarks on Young topknots. In connection with the foregoing are certain curious
forms, the early stages of which were found by Mr Holt in May, 1891, ..."
3. The Young Folks' Cyclopædia of Common Things by John Denison Champlin (1884)
"... white with black topknots, and golden Polands, which are mixed yellow and
black with black topknots, but the real Polands are black with white topknots. ..."
4. The American Poultry Yard: Comprising the Origin, History, and Description by Daniel Jay Browne, Samuel Allen (1850)
"Certain fowls, with topknots, are called by the names indicated above. Whence the
cognomen of " Polands" was derived, it is difficult to trace. ..."
5. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1914)
"... red spots, yellow spots, green spots, topknots and tails, horns, lanterns for
the dark, songs, howlings, dances and tourneys—a medley of odds and ends. ..."
6. The Cultivator by New York State Agricultural Society (1848)
"Of Ducks kept by Mr. H., I saw fine specimens of Muscovy, and of others more
common ; of the splendid white topknots, the Wild black duck domesticated, ..."
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