The Collaborative International Dictionary
Elflock \Elf"lock`\, n. Hair matted, or twisted into a knot, as if by elves.
Wiktionary
n. (context now rare English) A lock of hair that is tangled.
Usage examples of "elflock".
When he stopped down its brilliance in his optics, he perceived the disk maned with corona and elflock prominences, winged with zodiacal light.
The hair also became of midnight blackness, and gummed up into elflocks of fantastic shape and effect.
Evil forces nested in the elflocks, twisting them and slowly inducing senility.
She wore a dingy mobcap on her thin grey hair, which hung in elflocks to her shoulders.
A sprightly old crone with rosy cheeks and hair in white elflocks, she was on her feet and at the front gate by the time Grace reached her.
His black hair was longish and unevenly cut so that elflocks stuck out from under his paint store gimme cap.
Her hair, newly washed and combed, clustered in glossy elflocks around her head and flowed down her back.
She had greased and dirtied her shining hair to resemble the stringy grey elflocks of neglectful old age, and used herbal dyes to make her face hideous.