Wiktionary
n. 1 A lock of hair worn at the side of the head. 2 payess / payot 3 (cx firearms English) The design of a gun that has the lockwork mounted to the inside of a plate; compare (term boxlock English).
Wikipedia
Sidelocks are significant in several cultures:
- Payot, in Orthodox Judaism
- Sidelock of youth, in Ancient Egypt
Usage examples of "sidelock".
Send parties through the sidelock and blow the feeds connecting us to the scumvermin hulk.
There is a photo of a bearded man with long sidelocks and a black hat, his hand on the shoulder of a boy.
The doctor cut a solemn figure with his grave face and the long, curling sidelocks of his people, but his touch was gentle and I rested more comfortably when he had applied a poultice to draw the poisons and re-bandaged my thigh.
The doctor shook his head again, sidelocks swinging, and murmured something in his own tongue.
Yeshuite family, but I knew him by his sidelocks, long and dangling, while the rest of his hair was cropped at the neck.
She had trimmed his sidelocks and rubbed fragrant camellia oil into his long black hair and was arranging it in a topknot.
Their small topknots were fashionably askew, and their sidelocks stood out in disorderly fringes from their florid faces.
But as he walked out the door of the bunk room, a Micaszian with two fat purple sidelocks hanging over the right side of his otherwise clean-shaven skull shoved him back roughly.
Except for white sidelocks, her hair was as black as night and served to accentuate her severe beauty.
He lacked the traditional sidelocks, I noted, and his hands clenched into fists with the undissipated force of his anger.
It seemed that the hair of his sidelocks stood straight up each time the candle flickered.
As Hideyoshi looked at Fujitaka, he saw that his sidelocks had turned the color of frost over the last half year.