Elflock

Quick meaning: Elflock is a noun meaning (now rare) A lock of hair that is tangled.

Meaning

(now rare) A lock of hair that is tangled.

Example Sentences

All went unshaven, and many had long, filthy elf-locks hanging about their faces, and ragged beards reaching to their girdles.

Never was even washerwoman more untidy. A cap all rags, from which the hair came straggling in elf-locks over a face which generally looked red-hot […]

[T]heir wide Farthingales extreamly fill the Coach, an one would take their thick and knotty Elflocks for Hempen ſtuffing, broke out of an old pack-ſaddle.

The face which emerged was not reassuring.[…]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.

Word Forms

• elflocks

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