topknot
top not
- n headdress consisting of a decorative ribbon or bow worn in the hair
- n showy crest or knot of hair or feathers
- Soon two august heads were laid together in musical conspiracy: 1) The silky-haired topknot of Leopold Stokowski, vacationing conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony and 2) The .
- Muffled from toes to topknot, Lieut.
- For example, Holmes points out that even though humans are covered in hair follicles--we have more of them than chimpanzees do--most of our fur grows in an "extravagant topknot" on .