Word: topknot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also-rans included a tight-trousered farmer holding two Japanese flags, two old soldiers with elaborate monkey faces, and a tall samurai (honorable warrior) dolled up in a black kimono and sporting real hair wound into a topknot. The show's general manager, a weathered old farmer who looked more like a scarecrow than some of the exhibits, was moved to remark with a sly smile that "samurai now hold no terror for crows...
...hajjel (pronounced haghl) is a tough game bird common in Syria. It looks like an American bobwhite without its topknot and is about four times larger. As a boy Kalaf used to hunt the hajjel and he still has great affection for the bird. Says he: "By golly, this hajjel she is tough one. In Syria she roost on high bluffs and nothing can get him. She make hawk or eagle run like hell...
...Perelman heroine who left the room in high dudgeon and returned in low dudgeon, just to show her versatility. But she is an exasperatingly contradictory female. Life confounds her. Attention is her dish. Her water-bug mind, attractively camouflaged by a pert, pretty face and curly, blonde topknot, tends to forget people when they aren't around...
...priests came out to replace him, talked about an airplane for making their interurban visits. "He's a case," said Father Jerry. "After all he's not so bad, if you take him the right way," said Father Steve, "anybody would get a bit queer in the topknot after being over thirty years out here alone." Then Father Chisholm had his last great triumph. When he saved Tycoon Chia's son, the proud, highly civilized, subtle Chinese had formally offered to become Christian. To Chia's great relief Father Chisholm said...
What the eagle is to the U. S., the quetzal is to Guatemala. The quetzal (rhymes with pretzel) is a rare, lovely bird with bright green plumage, blood-red breast, fuzzy topknot, yard-long tail feathers. Quetzal is also the name of the Guatemalan money unit, and the bird's graven image appears on the national seal, coins, stamps. The quetzal was venerated by the ancient Aztecs, Toltecs and Mayas as a colleague of the plumed serpent god, Quetzalcoatl (rhymes with pretzelcowatle), god of metallurgy, agriculture, wisdom, health. Only priests and nobles could wear quetzal plumes in their headdress...