[T]heir wide Farthingales extreamly fill the Coach, an one would take their thick and knotty Elflocks for Hempen ſtuffing, broke out of an old pack-ſaddle.
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Elflock
Synonyms for "elflock"
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Translations
5 translations across 5 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 糾結的頭髮 /纠结的头发 noun (lock of hair that is tangled)
Finnish
1 entries- takku noun (lock of hair that is tangled)
German
1 entries- Weichselzopf noun (lock of hair that is tangled)
Polish
1 entries- kołtun noun (lock of hair that is tangled)
Ukrainian
1 entries- ко́втун noun (lock of hair that is tangled)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
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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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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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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