Psyche knot

noun

noun

Synonym of Grecian knot.

Even without theatrical shoes on, Erlys was taller than Luca Zombini, and kept her fair hair in a Psyche knot, out of which the less governable tresses continued, with the day, to escape.2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 397:
Why, really, he drove all the ladies to wearing those odious Psyche knots.1896, John Kendrick Bangs, The Bicyclers:

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