different between sidecurl vs sidelock

English

From side +? lock.

sidelock (plural sidelocks)

A lock of hair worn at the side of the head.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 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., National Geographic^[1]:
  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.
Hyponyms: payess, payot
(firearms) The design of a gun that has the lockwork mounted to the inside of a plate; compare boxlock.

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