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elf-lock|ˈɛlflɒk|
In 6, 9 pl. elves-locks.
[f. elf + lock (of hair).]
A tangled mass of hair, superstitiously attributed to the agency of elves, esp. Queen Mab: ‘which it was not fortunate to disentangle’ (Nares).
1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. i. iv. 90 Elf-locks [1623 elk⁓locks]. 1596Lodge Wits Miserie (Halliw.), Curl'd and full of elves-locks. 1637Heywood Dialogues xvii. Wks. 1874 VI. 241 What though my thin and unkemb'd scattered haire Fell in long Elfe-locks from my scalpe, now bare? 1810Gentl. Mag. LXXXVI. i. 214 Their hair remains matted and wreathed in elves-locks. 1848Kingsley Saint's Trag. ii. iv. 84 The listless craftsmen through their elf-locks scowled.
Hence ˈelf-locked ppl. a., having elf-locks or tangled hair.
1647R. Stapylton Juvenal vii. 83 The elfe-lockt fury all her snakes had shed. 1946W. de la Mare Traveller 23 Plaiting cramped fingers in the elf-locked mane. |