out-of-curl

Updated: May 12, 2025

His top-knot sticks up like an out-of-curl feather. Beside him is a still smaller mite who cannot be more than two; he has little silver bangles on his fat wrists and ankles, and a strip of cotton rolled round his dumpy body, while papa and mamma and numerous aunts are seated on the platform behind gravely smoking.

G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton - Round the Wonderful World