Gr. Antiq. [a. Gr. κρωβύλος.] A roll or knot of hair on the crown of the head.

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1850.  Leitch, trans. C. O. Müller’s Anc. Art (ed. 2), 473. The hair is … knotted together into a krobylos in the undraped statues of Venus produced by later art.

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