sidelock

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Definition of sidelock

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noun

A lock of hair worn at the side of the head.

“observation of the Sabbath (rather than the décadi) and the wearing of Jewish side-locks and beards were regarded as ‘uncivic’ offences.”
“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.”

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noun

A lock of hair worn at the side of the head.

“observation of the Sabbath (rather than the décadi) and the wearing of Jewish side-locks and beards were regarded as ‘uncivic’ offences.”
“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.”
The design of a gun that has the lockwork mounted to the inside of a plate; compare boxlock.

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From side + lock.

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