be-ringletted

See also: beringletted

English

Adjective

be-ringletted (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of beringleted
   • 1845 August 13, “The Preparations at Bonn”, in The Standard, number 6565, London, column 2:

     […] and the flaunting lace caps of the women, the showy uniforms of the civil and military authorities, and the be-capped, be-piped, and be-ringletted Bürchen[-]classe who throng the streets, give the whole the appearance of a carnival on a grand scale.

   • 1846 July 18, “Slips of the Tongue”, in Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal, number 133, Edinburgh, page 38, column 1:

     […] and Frank was already quite ashamed of his suspicions, and beginning to discard them as entirely unfounded, when again the door was thrown open, and, accompanied by her husband—overdressed, be-flounced, be-ringletted, and panting from the recent labours of the toilet—the real fugitive made her appearance in the portly person of Gertrude’s stepmother, the second Mrs Blake.

   • 1906 October 4, Rosalie Neish, “The Modern Woman”, in Montgomery Times, Montgomery, Ala., page two, column 3:

     The modern woman is more outspoken than her be-ringletted grandmother would ever have dared to be;