ringlet


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Synonyms for ringlet

a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)

a small ring

Related Words

any of various butterflies belonging to the family Satyridae

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Bullfrog, with her glossy ringlets curling on her brow, and two rows of orient pearls gleaming between her parted lips, which wore a most angelic smile.
I thought of the glossy ringlets and pearly teeth; I thought of the Kalydor; I thought of the coachman's bruised ear and bloody nose; I thought of the tender love secrets which she had whispered to the judge and jury and a thousand tittering auditors,--and gave another groan!
For example, the Orange-tip and Ringlet species are now very common in Scotland due to warming weather.
He said the first incident at Jalan Ulu Merah, Ringlet near the vegetable farms, occurred at about 6am adding that the landslide covered a 10-metre stretch.
So far the warm weather has given some species like the meadow brown, red admiral and ringlet a good start," he said.
Widespread species, including the Ringlet, Meadow Brown and the Small Tortoiseshell all struggled in Wales.
Her own gold-dipped copper pieces attracted a stream of buyers from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, who were particularly interested in her more-modern adaptations of the cornet, including a ringlet number set with cartoonlike butterflies.
"With that, there will be hydrodynamic force transferring any particle from center to ringlet," says Wong.
Other winners included: Avon Advanee Techniques Intense Repair (hair repair), Redken Ringlet (curl enhancer), Mark Salon Straight Smoothing Balm (straight product), Pantene Pro-V Restoratives (deep conditioner) and Matrix Hair Care Amplify Foam (volumizer).
The most prominent ringlet seen by Voyager has moved inward by 200 km and dimmed considerably, one of very few confirmed changes in the 25 years between spacecraft encounters.
In 1799, shortly after she entered the Augustinian convent in Dulmen, near her birthplace in Westphalia, she began to bleed from a ringlet of tiny wounds around her head and three years later exhibited the stigmata on her hands, feet and side.
I was about to say thank you and give her a nice smile when I saw that her lovely ringlet brow was furrowing again and her right forefinger was moving up with a little warning wag that was pure Miss Ingalsby, "But the next time!"
The heroine, called Belinda, indignantly demands back the ringlet, but after a fruitless charge it is affirmed that it has been transported to heaven, and henceforth shall " midst the stars inscribe Belinda