sidelock

See also: side-lock

English

Alternative forms

• side-lock

Etymology

From side +‎ lock.

Noun

sidelock (plural sidelocks)

1. A lock of hair worn at the side of the head.

   Hyponyms: payess, payot

   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 558:

     observation of the Sabbath (rather than the décadi) and the wearing of Jewish side-locks and beards were regarded as ‘uncivic’ offences.

   • 2014 December, Paul Salopek, “Blessed. Cursed. Claimed.”, in National Geographic‎^[1], archived from the original on 12 February 2015:

     Its male residents dress like crows: heavy black suits, black Borsalino hats, the old grandfathers hugely whiskered and the boys in peot, the curled sidelocks of the pious.

2. (firearms) The design of a gun that has the lockwork mounted to the inside of a plate; compare boxlock.

Translations

sidelock

• Czech: pejzy (cs)
• Finnish: ohimokihara
• French: papillote (fr) f, anglaise (fr) f
• German: Schläfenlocke (de) f, Seitenlocke f
• Hebrew: פֵּאָה (he) f (pe'á)
• Hungarian: pajesz (hu)
• Polish: pejsy (pl) m pl (usually plural)
• Russian: пе́йсы m pl (péjsy) (usually plural)
• Spanish: mecha de lado f
• Turkish: peyot, peyes
• Volapük: flanaherakrugül
• Yiddish: פּאה f (peye)

See also

• sideburn
• sidecurl

Anagrams

• lockside