sidelock
See also: side-lock
English
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Etymology
Noun
sidelock (plural sidelocks)
- A lock of hair worn at the side of the head.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 558:
- observation of the Sabbath (rather than the décadi) and the wearing of Jewish side-locks and beards were regarded as ‘uncivic’ offences.
- 2014 December, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic[1]:
- Its male residents dress like crows: heavy black suits, black Borsalino hats, the old grandfathers hugely whiskered and the boys in peot, the curled sidelocks of the pious.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 558:
- (firearms) The design of a gun that has the lockwork mounted to the inside of a plate; compare boxlock.
Translations
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