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Definition of Topknotted
1. Adjective. (of a bird or animal) having a usually ornamental tuft or process on the head; often used in combination. "Tufted loosestrife"
Category relationships: Animal, Animate Being, Beast, Brute, Creature, Fauna
Similar to: Adorned, Decorated
Definition of Topknotted
1. Adjective. Having a topknot. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Topknotted
Literary usage of Topknotted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Little Book of American Poets, 1787-1900 by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse (1915)
"... That flutters so restless, and cries out so loud, With stiff horny beak and
a topknotted head, And a lining of scarlet laid under his wings, ..."
2. The Little Book of American Poets, 1787-1900 by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse (1915)
"... With stiff horny beak and a topknotted head, And a lining of scarlet laid
under his wings, — Do you think, if he said, "I'm ashamed to be black! ..."
3. Specimens of Prose Composition by Charles Read Nutter, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey, Chester Noyes Greenough (1907)
"... which is answered by two fox-hounds shut up in the opposite cow-house ; the
old topknotted hens, scratching with their chicks among the straw, ..."
4. The Flowing Road: Adventuring on the Great Rivers of South America by Caspar Whitney (1912)
"If you look sharp you'll see, like as not, just as dusk is coming on, a small
band of the black-bodied and feathery topknotted ..."
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