lock of hair

collocation in English

meaningsoflockandhair

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lock
noun
uk
/lɒk/us
/lɑːk/
a device that prevents something such as a door from being opened and can only be opened with ...
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hair
noun[C or U]
uk
/heər/us
/her/
the mass of thin thread-like structures on the head of a person, or any of these structures that grow out of the skin of a person ...
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(Definition oflockandhairfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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She gave her well-wishers these pieces of clothing in addition to flowers, handwritten notes and alockofhair.
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Police found alockofhair.
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Alockofhairis left at the crown (sahasrara).
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He had thatlockofhairuntil his death.
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He was shown with only onelockofhair.
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Finally, a deus ex machina appears and thelockofhairexperiences an apotheosis.
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Usually children were represented with onelockofhairremaining on the sides of their heads.
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Finally, a deux ex machina appears and thelockofhairexperiences an apotheosis.
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The item may be alockofhair, a memento, or an item specially made.
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The girl begged alockofhairfrom her until she gave it.
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He also returns all her letters and thelockofhairthat she had so obligingly bestowed upon him.
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Patients were asked to send one dollar and alockofhair, which would enable him to cure their ills.
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Women (and men) are actually required to cut only alockofhairrather than shaving the entire head.
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He wears an ecclesiastical hairstyle that is balding, short and has a centrallockofhairaround the forehead.
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The braid is tied off with alockofhairexcluded from the braid, taped, or tied off and taped.
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The braid may be secured by wrapping with alockofhairreserved from the braid, or by taping.
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Alockofhairfrom the animal is then cut and burned, libation being poured on the altar with prayer.
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One thicklockofhairfalls down the middle of her back, while another is swept forward onto her proper right shoulder.
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Each time the tongs were applied, they were moved slightly in a direction normal to thelockofhair, thus producing a continuous flat or two-dimensional wave.
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He told her that the only way was to get alockofhairfrom the king's daughter and make a cloak from it for the giant.
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It describes a style of man's haircut that features alockofhairsprouting from the top or the front of an otherwise closely shaven head.
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She demands alockofhairfrom each of the assembly in order to cast the curse, and sacrifices the heart of her prized stallion to complete the spell.
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The young lady has plucked her hairline to increase the expanse, and thus elegance, of her forehead, and alockofhairfalls at the back in a ponytail.
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It is achieved by wrapping alockofhairaround the length of a thin curling iron or can be sported naturally by people with sufficiently tightly curled hair.
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