"elflock" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1828, Mary Russell Mitford, “The Fisherman in his Married State”, in Our Village, London: G.B. Whittaker, page 278:",
          "text": "Never was even washerwoman more untidy. A cap all rags, from which the hair came straggling in elf-locks over a face which generally looked red-hot […]",
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          "ref": "1904, Stanley J. Weyman, “XII. The Peasants' Camp”, in The Abbess of Vlaye:",
          "text": "All went unshaven, and many had long, filthy elf-locks hanging about their faces, and ragged beards reaching to their girdles.",
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          "ref": "1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:",
          "text": "The face which emerged was not reassuring.[…]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.",
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        "A lock of hair that is tangled."
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        "(now rare) A lock of hair that is tangled."
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          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "lock of hair that is tangled",
          "word": "糾結的頭髮"
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          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "jiūjié de tóufa",
          "sense": "lock of hair that is tangled",
          "word": "纠结的头发"
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          "sense": "lock of hair that is tangled",
          "word": "takku"
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          "sense": "lock of hair that is tangled",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "Weichselzopf"
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          "sense": "lock of hair that is tangled",
          "word": "kołtun"
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          "roman": "kóvtun",
          "sense": "lock of hair that is tangled",
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        "(now rare) A lock of hair that is tangled."
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      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "lock of hair that is tangled",
      "word": "糾結的頭髮"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "jiūjié de tóufa",
      "sense": "lock of hair that is tangled",
      "word": "纠结的头发"
    },
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      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "lock of hair that is tangled",
      "word": "takku"
    },
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      "sense": "lock of hair that is tangled",
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      "word": "Weichselzopf"
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      "sense": "lock of hair that is tangled",
      "word": "kołtun"
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      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "kóvtun",
      "sense": "lock of hair that is tangled",
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      "word": "ко́втун"
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  "word": "elflock"
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