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Definition of Earlocks
1. earlock [n] - See also: earlock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Earlocks
Literary usage of Earlocks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poland of To-day and Yesterday: A Review of Its History, Past and Present by Nevin Otto Winter (1913)
"In Galicia the most distinguishing characteristic are the earlocks, or peasy,
... The earlocks are regarded as a mark of piety, and the Jewish boys actually ..."
2. Passages from the American Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1868)
"long earlocks,—straw hats, light, or dark-mixed. The theatre being closed, the
play-bills of many nights ago are posted up against its walls. July 41h. ..."
3. History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, from the Earliest Times Until the by Simon Dubnow (1918)
"In 1870 Alexander II. was on a visit to the Kingdom of Poland, and there beheld
the sight of dense masses of Hasidim with their long earlocks and flowing ..."
4. Out of the Shadow by Rose Cohen (1918)
"But of course yet with his same full grown beard and earlocks. Now instead I saw
a young man with a closely cut beard and no sign of earlocks. ..."
5. The Atlantic Monthly by Making of America Project (1867)
"... As that worn homeward by the prodigal son ; His earlocks gray, striped with
a foxy brown, Were braided up to hide a desert crown ; His coat was brownish ..."
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