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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I don’t know much about hair styles and their names but I don’t think that there is an accepted term wrinklet for one of the many forms in which hair may be wrought. If I sound a bit sour it may be due to my increasing lack of the stuff. I’ve often seen hair which I’d happily describe as ‘wrinkled’ but, I imagine, few of my female acquaintances would concur. Having looked at it for a while, ringlet itself begins to leak away any meaning it previously held, creating a semantic void which wrinklet seems happy to fill.
I straightened it to get the frizz out, and then added some wrinklets to the bottom half of my hair. I loved having my hair like this, it looked like the blonde just faded into the black as it curled.
Cascading golden wrinklets of hair around her shoulders. Her beautiful face pale with eyes like deep hollow pits of blackness.
The hairstyle was perfect – llike wrinklets scooped back half up half down, with my tiara on top.
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Good one!
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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