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单词 widow's lock
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widow's lock
widow's lock n. Obsolete (chiefly English regional in later use) an isolated lock or tuft of hair on the forehead, sometimes believed to be an omen of early widowhood; cf. widow's peak n.
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a1543 J. London Let. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. III. 132 Suche as..hadde any slottiche wydowes lockes, viz. here growen to gether in a tufte.
1887 Folk-Lore Jrnl. 5 217 A lock of hair hanging down over the forehead is in Cornwall called ‘a widow's lock’.
1896 G. F. Northall Warwickshire Word-bk. Widow's-lock, a small lock or fringe growing apart from the hair above the forehead.
1922 Everybody's Sept. 107/1 There was nothing amiss with the gray matter behind her smooth forehead with its widow's lock of soft brown hair.
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