Meaning of sidelock | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A lock of hair worn at the side of the head.
2. The design of a gun that has the lockwork mounted to the inside of a plate; compare boxlock.

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Examples

“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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