Psyche knot

English

Noun

Psyche knot (plural Psyche knots)

1. Synonym of Grecian knot
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 397:

     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.

   • 1896, John Kendrick Bangs, The Bicyclers:

     Why, really, he drove all the ladies to wearing those odious Psyche knots.