A knot or bunch of hair such as that in which women sometimes do up their back hair; also, a short bunch or tassel-like curl: cf. bob-curl n. at…

A large coil or hump of hair, usually folded round a pad, which has, at various times (e.g. 1780, 1870), been worn by women on the nape of the neck…

A rounded shape formed by tresses of hair fastened into a roll or rolls (cf. pouf, n. 1b). Later also: any puffed-out part of a person's hair.

A roll or knot of hair on the crown of the head.

A mode of knotting the hair behind the head.

Originally and chiefly U.S. A type of chignon consisting of long hair arranged at the nape of the neck, usually folded around a pad and sometimes…

Applied to various rounded heaps. A bunch or knot of hair; a chignon.

A roll or coil of hair. Obsolete. rare.

(see quot. 1966).

= Grecian knot n. at Grecian, adj. n.compounds.

= cadogan, n.

As a disposition of women's hair.

(a) A kind of elaborate female headdress fashionable in the late 18th cent. (now historical) (b) A high roll or pad of hair worn by women.

transferred. Hair coiled at the back of the head in a shape suggesting a bun. Also attributive.

A woman's hairstyle in which the hair is tucked into a neat vertical roll down the back of the head.

(a) (esp. in Gymnastics) a swing of the body backwards to rest on the back of the neck; (b) a roll of hair worn at the nape of the neck.

a method of dressing women's hair in imitation of the ancient Greek fashion.