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A ringlet is a long curl of hair that hangs down, like a little ring made of hair. People often talk about ringlets on children, or in old pictures of girls with long curls by their ears. You can have one ringlet or a whole head of them. The hair is not just a bit wavy: a ringlet is a tight, round curl. Though actually, not every curl is a ringlet. A short, messy curl is just a curl. The word feels a little old and pretty. You hear it more in stories and in careful descriptions of hair than when someone is talking about a normal haircut.
垂下來的長捲髮（一綹一綹像小圈的那種）
組成ring (a circle) + -let (a small one). There was already a similar word in Middle English, ryngyl / ryngyll / rengel, also meaning a ringlet.
同家族的字
- ringa circle, which is the shape of the curl
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
ringletnoun/ˈɹɪŋ.lət/
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A small ring.
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A lock, tress.
- Her hair was in ringlets.
- For knovv by lot from Jove I am the povvr / Of this fair VVood, and live in Oak'n bovvr, / To nurſe the Saplings tall, and curl the grove / VVith ringlets quaint, and vvanton vvindings vvove.
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biologyentomologynatural-sciencesAny of various butterflies with small rings on the wings, in the tribe Satyrini of the family Nymphalidae, such as Aphantopus hyperantus.
ringletverb/ˈɹɪŋ.lət/
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To form into ringlets.
- "It's very becoming!" said Pollie coaxingly, taking his curly head, which she had been brushing and ringleting for the last half hour, all damp, into her arms.
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To surround or encircle like a ringlet.
- I think now that if it had gripped me with those suckers, I would have gone out into the mist too. But it didn't. It grabbed Norm. And the third tentacle ringleted his other ankle. Now he was being pulled away from me.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。