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  • noun Plural form of side-lock.

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Examples

  • One had his shirttails out and bright red hair with loosening corkscrew side-locks.

    Still Life, With Girl Brittany Newmark 2011

  • One had his shirttails out and bright red hair with loosening corkscrew side-locks.

    Still Life, With Girl Brittany Newmark 2011

  • “The father of side-locks,” a nickname of one of the Tobba Kings.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Then they returned to Shahrazad and displayed her in the second dress, a suit of surpassing goodliness, and veiled her face with her hair like a chin-veil. 119 Moreover, they let down her side-locks and she was even as saith of her one of her describers in these couplets: —

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • So, seizing a candle, he looked about for his gold-laced cap, and found it lying in its usual place, on a console-table, in the anteroom, placed before a mirror at which Jos used to coquet, always giving his side-locks a twirl, and his cap the proper cock over his eye, before he went forth to make appearance in public.

    Vanity Fair 2006

  • ‘Ay! ay!’ repeated Girshel, shaking his side-locks.

    The Jew and other stories 2006

  • And no black coats, no side-locks and no yarmulkes.

    The Tour-Bus Diaries: Visiting Jim Crow in his Bethlehem Condo 2006

  • His large beard and curled side-locks made me think he was a good man.

    In Those Days The Story of an Old Man Jehudah Steinberg

  • His bald crown, sandy side-locks, reddish whiskers, sanguineous cheeks, and blue eyes were all luminous with confidence in the integrity of his State, and with scorn for the meanness and wickedness of her enemies.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 Various

  • The side-locks instead of being combed or brushed to follow the contour of the head, fall loosely and fly in opposite directions.

    What Dress Makes of Us Dorothy Quigley

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