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Payess vs Sidelock - What's the difference?

payess | sidelock |

As nouns the difference between payess and sidelock

is that payess is (chiefly|in the plural) sidelocks worn by hasidic and orthodox male jews while sidelock is a lock of hair worn at the side of the head.

payess

English

Noun

(es)
  • (chiefly, in the plural) sidelocks worn by Hasidic and Orthodox male Jews

    • Synonyms

    * payot, sidelock

    sidelock

    English

    Alternative forms

    * side-lock

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A lock of hair worn at the side of the head.
  • * 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
    • Its male residents dress like crows: heavy black suits, black Borsalino hats, the old grandfathers hugely whiskered and the boys in peot, the curled sidelocks of the pious.
  • * 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 558:
    • observation of the Sabbath (rather than the décadi ) and the wearing of Jewish side-locks and beards were regarded as ‘uncivic’ offences.
  • payess / payot
  • The design of a gun that has the lockwork mounted to the inside of a plate; compare boxlock.

    • See also

    * sideburn * sidecurl