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3 fashion terms (clothing, hair styles, fabrics, etc.)
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lovelock
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Definition:1. A lock of hair that hangs down and is worn apart from the hair that remains.2. A flowing lock of hair that is dressed apart from the hair that remains.text from Wiktionary, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealikehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/' rel='noopener external ' target='_blank'>https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/---[a hairstyle] popular amongst European "men of fashion" from the end of the 16th century until well into the 17th century.[It was] a long lock of hair, often plaited (braided) and made to rest over the left shoulder (the heart side) to show devotion to a loved one.text from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealikehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/' rel='noopener external ' target='_blank'>https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
image: By Sir Anthony Van Dyck. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22126913
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I looked at the broad plumed hat, the curling love-locks, the white lace collar, and the straight, severe face which was framed between them. It was not a brutal countenance, but it was prim, hard, and stern, with a firm-set, thin-lipped mouth, and a coldly intolerant eye.
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Kovalenko would be coming along the street, a tall, sturdy young ruffian, in an embroidered shirt, his love-locks falling on his forehead under his cap, in one hand a bundle of books, in the other a thick knotted stick, followed by his sister, also with books in her hand.
Anton Chekov. The Wife and other stories
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