topknot

IPA: tˈɑpnɑt

A decorative knot of hair on the crown of the head, sometimes having ribbons or feathers.
A decorative headdress.
A crest or knot of feathers upon the head or top, as of a bird.
Any fish in one of several genera:
The New Zealand topknot, Notoclinus fenestratus
The Norwegian topknot, Phrynorhombus norvegicus
The brown topknot, Notoclinus compressus
Several species in the genus Zeugopterus
A small European flounder (Phrynorhombus regius, syn. Rhombus punctatus).

Examples of "topknot" in Sentences

I wore my hair up in a loose and messy topknot with these flashy, oversized rhinestone hoops.
His long hair, pure white, was twisted up in a kind of topknot and fastened there by pins of dull gold.
I took a hot but quick shower, pulled my hair up into a topknot, and got dressed before I left my apartment.
He kissed her hand and then the "topknot" as he called the point into which her hair was gathered at the crown of her head.
The topknot was the extra touch ” the touch of poetry that I have always looked for in things, and that Hiram, in his way, craved and sought for, too.
This last is observed in Burma and Laos, but not in Siam and Camboja where is substituted for it the Kôn Chũ̆k or shaving of the topknot, which is allowed to grow until the eleventh or thirteenth year.
She wore a false front, which she called a topknot, the small, crimped, deep-brown mohair curls of which were bound about her forehead with a bit of black velvet ribbon, while gray hairs straggled from underneath to make the patent sham more transparent still; and over her topknot she wore a rusty black cap that enclosed the keen monkeyish face like a ruff.