The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lovelock \Love"lock`\, n.
A long lock of hair hanging prominently by itself; an
earlock; -- worn by men of fashion in the reigns of Elizabeth
and James I.
--Burton.
A long lovelock and long hair he wore.
--Sir W.
Scott.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A lock of hair that hangs down and is worn apart from the hair that remains. 2 A flowing lock of hair that is dressed apart from the hair that remains.
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Wikipedia
Lovelock is a 1994 science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card and Kathryn H. Kidd. The novel's eponymous narrator takes his name from James Lovelock, the scientist-inventor who formulated the Gaia Hypothesis, which figures heavily in the book.
Lovelock is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Damien Lovelock (21st century), Australian musician
- Jack Lovelock (1910–1949), New Zealand athlete
- James Lovelock (born 1919), scientist, environmentalist and futurologist
- Ossie Lovelock (1911–1981), Australian sportsman
- Ray Lovelock (actor) (born 1950), Italian actor
- William Lovelock (1899–1986), English classical composer and pedagogue
Fictional characters:
- Ray Lovelock (Macross), a character in Macross
Usage examples of "lovelock".
Lovelock sat in the same posture all the evening, and that his imagination had not projected itself into the play was proved by the fact that during the entractes he gazed with the same dull fixedness at the curtain.
In the evening, at the Kursaal, he met Captain Lovelock, who was wandering about with an air of explosive sadness.
The last crown was cropped as a shearling, except for the lovelock curled in solitary splendour between neat and tapered shoulderblades.
CHAPTER VII But on the following evening, Bernard again found himself seated in friendly colloquy with this interesting girl, while Gordon Wright discoursed with her mother on one side, and little Blanche Evers chattered to the admiring eyes of Captain Lovelock on the other.
Lovelock, also, whom Bernard saw every day, appeared to think that destiny had given him a slap in the face, for he had not enjoyed the satisfaction of a last interview with Miss Evers.
As Bernard came in, this gentleman turned and exhibited the ambrosial beard, the symmetrical shape, the monocular appendage, of Captain Lovelock.
Captain Lovelock was more disposed to conversation than Bernard had known him before.
Suddenly, on the other side of it, he beheld Captain Lovelock, seated squarely in his orchestra-stall, but, if Bernard was not mistaken, paying as little attention to the stage as he himself had done.
Sooner have me as I am than some poet chap with bearsgrease plastery hair, lovelock over his dexter optic.
She was pursued by a young man with streaming lovelocks and a short beard.
Her blue eyes flashed, her apple cheeks glowed, and her mousy hair escaped its bindings at her neck to decorate her animated face with lovelocks of purest shining gold.
Lovelock was outlining an impersonal updated version of that gubernatory personage.
The husband of the family, a short, round-shouldered little man in undress uniform, with wheel-like little side whiskers and lovelocks brushed smoothly from under his cap, with impassive face, was sorting the trunks piled one on top of the other, and trying to get some clothes out.