Crossword clues for dreadlocks
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A hairstyle worn by Rastafarians and others in which the hair is left to grow into long matted strings.
Wikipedia
Dreadlocks, also locs, dreads, or in Sanskrit, Jata, are intentionally matted and sculpted ropes of hair. Various methods are used to encourage the formation of locks such as backcombing, braiding and rolling. While leaving long hair to its own devices – foregoing brushing, combing or cutting the hair – will generally result in tangles and mats, the formation of evenly sized ropes takes planning and maintenance. A common misconception is that those who have consciously formed dreadlocks do not wash their hair, but this is usually not the case; many dreadlock care regimens require the wearer to wash their hair as regularly as non-locked hair.
Usage examples of "dreadlocks".
Sitting outside Le Trianon in an area roped off from pedestrians, the thin blond observer with the flowing beard and tangled dreadlocks washed down his second croissant with the dregs of his third capuccino: and wished that what passed for breakfast at the madersa where he was staying would feed more than a stray mouse.
Given the bleached dreadlocks, hobo beard and beige elephants stampeding across an ill-fitting sports shirt it was unlikely the thin man came from anywhere else.
He checked the passport and blinked as his own face stared up at him, only shaved and without the dreadlocks, surrounded by a sea of unreadable foreign type.
She flicked back the cover to glance at the counterfoil, then looked at ZeeZee: taking in the blond biker beard and beeswaxed dreadlocks, the pale blue Huntsville jumpsuit and tatty trainers.
At the top was a pixelated mugshot of Raf, still wearing dreadlocks and beard.
Her long red and black dreadlocks whipping behind her, her bare feet dirty, she wore an Indian cotton skirt printed in two shades of brown and a denim halter top.
She hovered just above the trees, clutching her skirt closed with one fist, and she shook her red and black dreadlocks back and waved, and Amen.
Her hair is a thousand coils and dreadlocks of red and black pinned up over silver filigree earrings.
Her hair had been bound into long dreadlocks, each of them dyed a different shade, ranging from a deep lavender to pale blues and greens to pure white, so that it almost seemed that her hair had been formed from glacial ice.
It was Maeve, the Winter Lady, her green eyes bright with bloodlust, dreadlocks bound close to her head.
He had twisted his wiry hair into short dreadlocks, and had never looked better.
His dreadlocks were even shorter now, clipped to within an inch of his head.
The third was of medium height, very pallid, his hairstyle a Medusa nightmare of dreadlocks so tangled that it was hard tell where his hair started and his head left off.
He stared at the car for a long moment, brow furrowed under the masking dreadlocks then he visibly shook it off.
He was wearing a black billed cap and a frown, his dreadlocks gone, his hair shaved in a close buzz cut.