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earlock

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ear·lock  (îrlk)
n.
A lock of curled hair that hangs in front of the ear.


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He must cut off his earlocks and suppress his urge to gesticulate "Jewishly" before he can, a la Benjamin Franklin, rise from Poverty and Obscurity to a position of material comfort.
At the end of the film version of The Chosen, the son, shorn of his distinctive earlocks and without his Hasidic dress, is shown departing for his new life.
A kind of Forrest Gump in earlocks, Shlemiel is sent by the town's resident sage, Gronam Ox (Charles Levin), on a pilgrimage to spread the questionable wisdom of his elders.
 
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