ringletedadj.

1822 T. L. Peacock Maid Marian vi. 83 Advancing her left foot, and gently curving her beautiful figure with a slight motion of her head that waved her black feathers and her ringleted hair, she drew the arrow to its head.

1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre I. iv. 43 In thin muslin frocks and scarlet sashes, with hair elaborately ringleted.

1900 J. G. Campbell Superstitions of Highlands & Islands of Scotl. iii. 176 This Glaistig is said to have been a thin sallow-looking little object, with ringletted yellow hair that reached down to her heels.

1922 H. MacMahon Orphans of Storm xii. 72 A negative shake of the golden head and ringleted curls was the answer, though the cupid mouth and the blue eyes smiled with tenderness.

1978 A. Desai Pineapple Cake in Games at Twilight (1982) 50 Little girls can be dressed in can-can petticoats and frocks like crêpe paper bells of pink and orange, their oiled and ringleted hair crowned with rustling wreaths of paper flowers.

2001 Daily Mail (Nexis) 4 Apr. 24 At the MTV awards she stole the show in that slit-to-the-thigh evening dress, and long, ringletted tresses.

1827 S. W. Wells Tales III. 99 The bright ringleted wife of De Medina.

1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton I. xii. 230 A dashing, bronzed-looking, ringletted sailor.

1894 A. Dobson 18th Cent. Vignettes 2nd Ser. x. 223 The ringletted heads and waistless figures..of 1789.

1922 E. Dart Sareel i. 17 It was hard to believe that the slim ringleted girl with smiling eyes could possibly have developed into the unlovely hard old woman of her knowledge.

1960 Winnipeg (Manitoba) Free Press 16 July 25/6 This gifted English lass..is a far cry from the Good Ship Lollipop school of dimpled, ringleted, simpering and calculating ‘juvenile stars’ of past Hollywood eras.

1990 F. Starn Soup of Day i. vii. 28 ‘And this is Jennifer, who will be with you tonight’, announced Henri, presenting a winsome, ringleted waitress.