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sidelock en · NOUN

Etymology

From side + lock.

Meanings

1. 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. 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 558:
   • 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. 2014 December, Paul Salopek, “Blessed. Cursed. Claimed.”, in National Geographic, archived from the original on 12 Feb 2015:
2. The design of a gun that has the lockwork mounted to the inside of a plate; compare boxlock.

Forms

Hyponyms

payot · payess

Relateds

sideburn · sidecurl

Translations (14)

fr anglaise (sidelock) · cs pejzy (sidelock) · es mecha de lado (sidelock) · pl pejs (sidelock) · fi ohimokihara (sidelock) · tr zülüf (sidelock) · de Seitenlocke (sidelock) · de Schläfenlocke (sidelock) · ru пе́йсы (sidelock) · fr papillote (sidelock) · hu pajesz (sidelock) · yi פּאה (sidelock) · he פֵּאָה (sidelock) · vo flanaherakrugül (sidelock)