sidelock

noun

: a lock of hair falling at the side of the face and often worn as a distinguishing mark especially by some Jews and by children in some cultures

an old Jew … with a beard and sidelocks

—Walter Sorell & Denver Lindley

wearing the sidelock of youth

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